How do you test a public/private DSA keypair?

Question

Is there an easy way to verify that a given private key matches a given public key? I have a few *.puband a few *.key files, and I need to check w

Answer 1

For DSA keys, use

 openssl dsa -pubin -in dsa.pub -modulus -noout

to print the public keys, then

 openssl dsa -in dsa.key -modulus -noout

to display the public keys corresponding to a private key, then compare them.