How to get rsa-private key in plain text format?

[Matt Caswell]

On 03/09/2021 17:24, Shariful Alam wrote:
> Thank you very much.
> So the output of "*openssl rsa -in mykey.pem -text -noout*" is a base64 
> hex format?

It's a hex format. "base64 hex" makes no sense. base64 is not hex, and 
vice versa.

Matt

> 
> Regards,
> Shariful
> 
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 7:55 AM Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org 
> <mailto:matt at openssl.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 03/09/2021 14:49, Billy Brumley wrote:
>      >>> Hello,
>      >>> Is there any command-line tool to get the plain text rsa
>     private key
>      >>> like the following format from .pem file?
>      >>
>      >> openssl rsa -in mykey.pem -noout -text
>      >
>      > It would in fact be much more educational to advocate pkey, which is
>      > cryptosystem agnostic
> 
>     Good point!
> 
>     Matt
> 
>      >
>      > openssl pkey -in mykey.pem -noout -text
>      >
>      > Since I would expect the rsa command to go the same was as the rsautl
>      > command in the future.
>      >
>      > Happy Friday!
>      >
>      > BBB
>      >
>