How to Export a Multi-line Environment Variable in Bash/Terminal e.g: RSA Private Key

export the key export PRIVATE_KEY=`cat ./gitbu.2018-03-23.private-key.pem` test.sh #!/bin/bash echo “$PRIVATE_KEY”; If you want to save the key to a .env file with the rest of your environment variables, all you needed to do is “wrap” the private key string in single quotes in the .env file … e.g: sh exports HELLO_WORLD=’—–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—– MIIEpAIBAAKCAQEA04up8hoqzS1+APIB0RhjXyObwHQnOzhAk5Bd7mhkSbPkyhP1 … Read more

How to Export Private / Secret ASC Key to Decrypt GPG Files

You can export the private key with the command-line tool from GPG. It works on the Windows-shell. Use the following command: gpg –export-secret-keys A normal export with –export will not include any private keys, therefore you have to use –export-secret-keys. Edit: To sum up the information given in my comments, this is the command that … Read more

Vagrant ssh authentication failure

For general information: by default to ssh-connect you may simply use user: vagrant password: vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/boxes/base.html#quot-vagrant-quot-user First, try: to see what vagrant insecure_private_key is in your machine config $ vagrant ssh-config Example: $ vagrant ssh-config Host default HostName 127.0.0.1 User vagrant Port 2222 UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null StrictHostKeyChecking no PasswordAuthentication no IdentityFile C:/Users/konst/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key IdentitiesOnly yes LogLevel FATAL … Read more

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

See https://polarssl.org/kb/cryptography/asn1-key-structures-in-der-and-pem (search the page for “BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY”) (archive link for posterity, just in case). BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY is PKCS#1 and is just an RSA key. It is essentially just the key object from PKCS#8, but without the version or algorithm identifier in front. BEGIN PRIVATE KEY is PKCS#8 and indicates that … Read more

How does a public key verify a signature?

Your understanding of “public keys encrypt, private keys decrypt” is correct… for data/message ENCRYPTION. For digital signatures, it is the reverse. With a digital signature, you are trying to prove that the document signed by you came from you. To do that, you need to use something that only YOU have: your private key. A … Read more