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

What is the difference between encrypting and signing in asymmetric encryption? [closed]

Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 12 months ago. Improve this question What is the difference between encrypting some data vs signing some data (using RSA)? Does it simply reverse 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

How do I access my SSH public key?

I’ve just generated my RSA key pair, and I wanted to add that key to GitHub. I tried cd id_rsa.pub and id_rsa.pub, but no luck. How can I access my SSH public key? 23 s 23 cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub or cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub You can list all the public keys you have by doing: $ ls ~/.ssh/*.pub