RIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1>

<p>For <b>DSA</b> the FIPS186-4 standard specifies that the values used for FFC parameter generation are also required for parameter validation. This means that optional FFC domain parameter values for <i>seed</i>, <i>pcounter</i> and <i>gindex</i> may need to be stored for validation purposes. For <b>DSA</b> these fields are not stored in the ASN1 data so they need to be stored externally if validation is required.</p>

<h2 id="DSA-parameters">DSA parameters</h2>

<p>The <b>DSA</