I ran into the ‘Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY’ error when using openssl on Windows (Ubuntu Bash and Git Bash had the same issue). The cause of the problem was that I’d saved the key and certificate files in Notepad using UTF8. Resaving both files in ANSI format solved the problem.
If you have a byte[] representing the output of getEncoded() on a key, you can use KeyFactory to turn that back into a PublicKey object or a PrivateKey object. byte[] privateKeyBytes; byte[] publicKeyBytes; KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance(“RSA”); // or “EC” or whatever PrivateKey privateKey = kf.generatePrivate(new PKCS8EncodedKeySpec(privateKeyBytes)); PublicKey publicKey = kf.generatePublic(new X509EncodedKeySpec(publicKeyBytes));
Remove the key pass phrase: openssl rsa -in key.pem -out newkey.pem If the certificate and the key are together: openssl rsa -in mycert.pem -out newcert.pem openssl x509 -in mycert.pem >>newcert.pem Source: http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/#key-removepass
The basics command line steps to generate a private and public key using OpenSSL are as follow openssl genrsa -out private.key 1024 openssl req -new -x509 -key private.key -out publickey.cer -days 365 openssl pkcs12 -export -out public_privatekey.pfx -inkey private.key -in publickey.cer Step 1 – generates a private key Step 2 – creates a X509 certificate … Read more
Your key format is an unencrypted base64-encoded PKCS8-encoded private key. Here is an example of how to decode it into a private key. (Don’t worry about the security of the private key in this example, it is just a throwaway for the example). import java.io.*; import java.security.KeyFactory; import java.security.PrivateKey; import java.security.spec.PKCS8EncodedKeySpec; import android.util.Base64; public class … Read more
Code example: private static string _privateKey; private static string _publicKey; private static UnicodeEncoding _encoder = new UnicodeEncoding(); private static void RSA() { var rsa = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(); _privateKey = rsa.ToXmlString(true); _publicKey = rsa.ToXmlString(false); var text = “Test1”; Console.WriteLine(“RSA // Text to encrypt: ” + text); var enc = Encrypt(text); Console.WriteLine(“RSA // Encrypted Text: ” + … Read more
I believe you are simply facing Keystore bugs. See this article for example: Android Security: The Forgetful Keystore. There are also numberous bug reports in Android tracker related to keystore, like AndroidKeyStore deleted after changing screen lock type.
Exported secret keys are encrypted by default, however –export-options export-reset-subkey-passwd will produce an unprotected export: When using the –export-secret-subkeys command, this option resets the passphrases for all exported subkeys to empty. This is useful when the exported subkey is to be used on an unattended machine where a passphrase doesn’t necessarily make sense. Defaults to … Read more
Looking at OpenSSL sources, this can happen only if padding in encrypted data is invalid. Does this happen with different keys, and can you provide a sample one? And, what tool is used to generate such keys (i.e. the same OpenSSL or not)? Probably, it omits padding/or writes zero padding instead of correct one.
If you have SSH installed, you should be able to run.. ssh-keygen Then go through the steps, you’ll have two files, id_rsa and id_rsa.pub (the first is your private key, the second is your public key – the one you copy to remote machines) Then, connect to the remote machine you want to login to, … Read more