Re: How to convert the unsecure private key back to secure one

2001-02-02 Thread Dr S N Henson
Gordon Lam Chin Ho wrote: > > Greg Stark, > > Sorry for making u confused > > We can create a private key by typing 'openssl rsa -noout -text -in > server.key'. And we can use that server.key to generate a unsecure key > by typing 'openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.unsecure'. Tha

Re: How to convert the unsecure private key back to secure one

2001-02-02 Thread Gordon Lam Chin Ho
Greg Stark, Sorry for making u confused We can create a private key by typing 'openssl rsa -noout -text -in server.key'. And we can use that server.key to generate a unsecure key by typing 'openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.unsecure'. That key do not need to be entered a password.

Re: How to convert the unsecure private key back to secure one

2001-02-02 Thread Greg Stark
Gordon, The phrase "unsecure private key" is new to me, but if by that you mean what is more commonly called the "public key" then you cannot do what you want. That is the whole point of public/private key pairs. You can tell everyone the public part but they can't use the public part to deri