CMake not able to find OpenSSL library

I am trying to install a software that uses cmake to install itself. When I run cmake .. on the command line, it gives me following error in the CMakeLists.txt on the line that says find_package(OpenSSL REQUIRED): — Could NOT find Git (missing: GIT_EXECUTABLE) ZLib include dirs: /usr/include ZLib libraries: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libz.so Compiling with SSL support … Read more

Differences between “BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY” and “BEGIN PRIVATE KEY”

Hi I was writing a program that imports private keys from a .pem file and create a private key object to use it later.. the problem I have faced is that some pem files header begin with —–BEGIN PRIVATE KEY—– while others begin with —–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—– through my search I knew that the … Read more

Use RSA private key to generate public key?

I don’t really understand this one: According to https://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/#key-rsa, you can generate a public key from a private key. openssl genrsa -out mykey.pem 1024 openssl rsa -in mykey.pem -pubout > mykey.pub My initial thinking was that they are generated in a pair together. Does the RSA private key contain the sum? Or the public key? … Read more