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

Shariful Alam dipto181 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 16:24:37 UTC 2021


Thank you very much.
So the output of "*openssl rsa -in mykey.pem -text -noout*" is a base64 hex
format?

Regards,
Shariful

On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 7:55 AM Matt Caswell <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
> >
>
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