RSA is an asymmetric public key algorithm that has been formalized in RFC 3447. It is in widespread use in public key infrastuctures (PKI) where certificates (cf. OpenSSL::X509::Certificate) often are issued on the basis of a public/private RSA key pair. RSA is used in a wide field of applications such as secure (symmetric) key exchange, e.g. when establishing a secure TLS/SSL connection. It is also used in various digital signature schemes.

Class Methods

Generates an RSA keypair. size is an integer representing the desired key size. Keys smaller than 1024 should be considered insecure. exponent is an odd number normally 3, 17, or 65537.

Generates or loads an RSA keypair. If an integer key_size is given it represents the desired key size. Keys less than 1024 bits should be considered insecure.

A key can instead be loaded from an encoded_key which must be PEM or DER encoded. A pass_phrase can be used to decrypt the key. If none is given OpenSSL will prompt for the pass phrase.

Examples

OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new 2048
OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new File.read 'rsa.pem'
OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new File.read('rsa.pem'), 'my pass phrase'
Instance Methods
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Outputs this keypair in PEM encoding. If cipher and pass_phrase are given they will be used to encrypt the key. cipher must be an OpenSSL::Cipher::Cipher instance.

THIS METHOD IS INSECURE, PRIVATE INFORMATION CAN LEAK OUT!!!

Stores all parameters of key to the hash. The hash has keys ‘n’, ‘e’, ‘d’, ‘p’, ‘q’, ‘dmp1’, ‘dmq1’, ‘iqmp’.

Don’t use :-)) (It’s up to you)

Does this keypair contain a private key?

Decrypt string, which has been encrypted with the public key, with the private key. padding defaults to PKCS1_PADDING.

Encrypt string with the private key. padding defaults to PKCS1_PADDING. The encrypted string output can be decrypted using public_decrypt.

The return value is always true since every private key is also a public key.

Decrypt string, which has been encrypted with the private key, with the public key. padding defaults to PKCS1_PADDING.

Encrypt string with the public key. padding defaults to PKCS1_PADDING. The encrypted string output can be decrypted using private_decrypt.

Makes new RSA instance containing the public key from the private key.

Outputs this keypair in DER encoding.

THIS METHOD IS INSECURE, PRIVATE INFORMATION CAN LEAK OUT!!!

Dumps all parameters of a keypair to a String

Don’t use :-)) (It’s up to you)