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OpenSSL Generating Private and Public Key Pair

OpenSSL Generating Private and Public Key Pair

In this post I will create asymmetric encryption key pair and then demonstrate the encryption and decryption of sample test.txt file with Private and Public keys using OpenSSL in Linux 1. Generate 4096-bit RSA Private key and protect it with “secops1” pass phrase using 128-bit AES encryption and store it as private.pem file openssl genrsa -aes128 -passout pass:secops1 -out private.pem 4096 Encryption of private key with AES and a pass phrase provides an extra layer of protection for the key….

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