To use RSA with Mbed TLS or any other application, you will most likely need an RSA key pair. An RSA key pair is often stored in either a PEM file or a DER file.

Building the RSA key pair generator

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Mbed TLS ships with the source code for an RSA key pair generator application, called gen_key. To build the executable for the application, please check out the building Mbed TLS.

After the compilation, the executable is often located in programs/pkey/gen_key.

The gen_key application has the following arguments and options:

Generating an RSA key pair

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To actually generate an RSA key pair, you have to decide which size your RSA key should be. Depending on your need for security, we advise you to use at least 2048 bits, and use 4096 bits or higher if you have very high security requirements.

To use the RSA key pair generator to generate a 4096 bits RSA key and save that key in PEM format in private.key, use:

The larger the requested keysize, the longer it will take to generate the key itself. You also need to take into account the performance of the system.

The key generator also outputs the key in human readable format in addition to writing the key to the requested keyfile in the requested format.

The output for a 1024-bit RSA key looks something like this:

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Generate a RSA PEM key pair from pure JS

Usage

outputs

Performance

Performance greatly depends on the bit size of the generated private key. With 1024 bits you get a key in 0.5s-2s, with 2048 bits it takes 8s-20s, on the same machine. As this will block the event loop while generating the key,make sure that's ok or to spawn a child process or run it inside a webworker.

Pro Tip: authorized_keys

@maxogden found out how to use this module to create entries for the authorized_keys file:

API

keypair([opts])

Get an RSA PEM key pair.

opts can be

• bits: the size for the private key in bits. Default: 2048.
• e: the public exponent to use. Default: 65537.

Installation

With npm do

Kudos

To digitalbazaar for theirforge project, this library is merely awrapper around some of forge's functions.

Nodejs Generate Rsa Key Pair

License

BSD / GPL