Re: Newbie questions: generating RSA PGP private & Public key pair

2009-06-19 Thread Kyle Hamilton
If you need to create a PGP key, OpenSSL does not do this. The package you're looking for is GNU Privacy Guard, or gnupg, available from http://gnupg.org/. -Kyle H On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for yor help. >> Are you doing this for a cer

RE: Newbie questions: generating RSA PGP private & Public key pair

2009-06-19 Thread Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
Hi, Thanks for yor help. > Are you doing this for a certificate request? No this is part of creating public and private key to exchange secure information on line. > > openssl genrsa -des3 2048 > mykey.key > openssl req -new -key mykey.key -sha256 I have more questions: 1- After issuing above com

Re: Newbie questions: generating RSA PGP private & Public key pair

2009-06-18 Thread Kyle Hamilton
Are you doing this for a certificate request? openssl genrsa -des3 2048 > mykey.key openssl req -new -key mykey.key -sha256 I do not believe that OpenSSL implements CAST. (the -des3 tells it to use triple-DES; you can instead use -aes256 to use AES at 256 bits.) -Kyle H On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at