[openssl-users] openssl genrsa question

[Viktor Dukhovni]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 01:13:08PM -0600, Rex Bloom wrote:

> I am being required to generate the following type of digital signature:
> 
> RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5

A PKCS#1 v1.5 signature.

> I am doing the following:
> 
> openssl genrsa -aes128 -out private.pem 2048

You're generating a private key, that could be used to create PKCS#1
signatures of various objects, or could be used for some other RSA
signature scheme.

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	Viktor.