Hi, This is normal since the RSA private key is in the Chinese Remainder format ( p, q, dp, dq and d). The first four elements have half the size of the moduluse and the last has the same size as the modulus. Thus, the hole RSA private key encoding will take three times the modulus size which is roughly the size of the RSA public key.
Mounir IDRASSI IDRIX - Cryptography And IT Security Experts http://www.idrix.fr robert2007 a écrit : > Hello, > > I am working with OpenSSL and am interested in why my private key is three > time the size of my public key when using 1024 bit RSA? > > Thanks. > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
