Viewing Components of RSA Keys

This section provides a tutorial example on how to view different components of a pair of RSA private key and public key using the OpenSSL command line tool.

Here is how to see the components of a RSA key:

herong> openssl rsa -in herong_rsa.key -text
Private-Key: (512 bit)
modulus:
    00:da:0a:dd:bf:b4:35:5d:71:ac:52:e3:b0:a1:4f:
    2e:bc:4c:45:eb:b7:7b:33:f1:2e:30:d6:8e:4b:5a:
    92:af:60:0c:63:39:59:4b:c8:09:21:0d:af:2f:cc:
    d6:1d:80:87:11:92:c5:09:6e:cb:86:f5:ca:7c:c1:
    19:67:8e:df:6d
publicExponent: 65537 (0x10001)
privateExponent:
    6d:04:27:d0:d4:8a:25:f9:52:be:72:c6:fa:2f:fb:
    de:fb:87:ae:0e:23:d4:59:8e:cd:ae:48:a0:d6:5d:
    26:bf:43:c8:44:8c:0b:ea:6b:79:b6:64:00:53:36:
    11:6f:99:2d:9c:b6:26:21:08:a9:d0:f3:ef:d5:40:
    55:1c:ec:65
prime1:
    00:f0:6f:1d:81:16:c4:22:1c:49:89:fc:68:6e:e8:
    da:5c:98:e7:f1:01:d6:0b:f0:80:07:d2:75:61:65:
    7a:65:03
prime2:
    00:e8:28:a3:98:a3:97:d5:64:5d:28:f7:fd:83:9d:
    93:a7:19:38:4d:9c:dd:8c:8a:5c:6e:f6:11:ef:39:
    c8:66:cf
exponent1:
    10:f1:23:79:17:2b:96:e3:bb:62:d7:c0:5c:20:58:
    52:b2:0b:95:f5:f5:29:3e:37:27:55:f3:23:7b:cd:
    16:15
exponent2:
    00:9e:2e:c2:79:48:4e:35:f9:b2:78:2d:b0:b0:b2:
    f7:5e:0d:93:0d:5e:ea:9d:cd:d0:79:52:74:99:d9:
    77:30:85
coefficient:
    00:a8:a3:40:1d:15:79:bb:f3:d1:5f:1e:e0:7e:99:
    52:0a:36:d0:4b:4c:04:0d:68:cb:97:cf:a9:57:97:
    b2:1b:ed
writing RSA key
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIBOwIBAAJBANoK3b+0NV1xrFLjsKFPLrxMReu3ezPxLjDWjktakq9gDGM5WUvI
CSENry/M1h2AhxGSxQluy4b1ynzBGWeO320CAwEAAQJAbQQn0NSKJflSvnLG+i/7
3vuHrg4j1FmOza5IoNZdJr9DyESMC+prebZkAFM2EW+ZLZy2JiEIqdDz79VAVRzs
ZQIhAPBvHYEWxCIcSYn8aG7o2lyY5/EB1gvwgAfSdWFlemUDAiEA6CijmKOX1WRd
KPf9g52Tpxk4TZzdjIpcbvYR7znIZs8CIBDxI3kXK5bju2LXwFwgWFKyC5X19Sk+
NydV8yN7zRYVAiEAni7CeUhONfmyeC2wsLL3Xg2TDV7qnc3QeVJ0mdl3MIUCIQCo
o0AdFXm789FfHuB+mVIKNtBLTAQNaMuXz6lXl7Ib7Q==
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Cryptography Terminology

 Cryptography Basic Concepts

 Introduction to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

 Introduction to DES Algorithm

 DES Algorithm - Illustrated with Java Programs

 DES Algorithm Java Implementation

 DES Algorithm - Java Implementation in JDK JCE

 DES Encryption Operation Modes

 DES in Stream Cipher Modes

 PHP Implementation of DES - mcrypt

 Blowfish - 8-Byte Block Cipher

 Secret Key Generation and Management

 Cipher - Secret Key Encryption and Decryption

 Introduction of RSA Algorithm

 RSA Implementation using java.math.BigInteger Class

 Introduction of DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)

 Java Default Implementation of DSA

 Private key and Public Key Pair Generation

 PKCS#8/X.509 Private/Public Encoding Standards

 Cipher - Public Key Encryption and Decryption

 MD5 Mesasge Digest Algorithm

 SHA1 Mesasge Digest Algorithm

 OpenSSL Introduction and Installation

OpenSSL Generating and Managing RSA Keys

 Generating New RSA Key Pairs

Viewing Components of RSA Keys

 Encrypting RSA Keys

 OpenSSL Managing Certificates

 OpenSSL Generating and Signing CSR

 OpenSSL Validating Certificate Path

 "keytool" and "keystore" from JDK

 "OpenSSL" Signing CSR Generated by "keytool"

 Migrating Keys from "keystore" to "OpenSSL" Key Files

 Certificate X.509 Standard and DER/PEM Formats

 Migrating Keys from "OpenSSL" Key Files to "keystore"

 Using Certificates in IE

 Using Certificates in Google Chrome

 Using Certificates in Firefox

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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