mkdhparams(8)

mkdhparams8

Create new dh parameters for the courier mail server

Usage

/usr/sbin/mkdhparams

Overview

This script is intended to be executed from a cron job, monthly. If the file /etc/courier/dhparams.pem is older than 25 days, the script creates a new file. This file contains pregenerated DH parameters for the Courier Mail Server.

The DH_BITS environment variable, if set controls the length of the generated DH parameters. It gets passed, verbatim, to either the dhparam OpenSSL command, or the --sec-param option to GnuTLS's certtool. The default value is 768 for OpenSSL, and “high” for GnuTLS.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11–12
  5. 13

Author

Sam Varshavchik

Author

From courier-base 1.4.1-3+deb13u2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.