From: owner-openssl-...@openssl.org On Behalf Of David Schwartz
Sent: Friday, 01 May, 2009 10:21
Now, from whatever I know about the public key
cryptography, it is not
possible to generate private key from the public key and
vice versa.
Both the keys can only be generated together
Now, from whatever I know about the public key cryptography, it is not
possible to generate private key from the public key and vice versa. Both
the keys can only be generated together through some algorithm.
The depends on the algorithm and your precise definition of private key.
There is no
This is actually an openssl-users question, but don't worry too much
about it. :)
genrsa generates both the public and the private keys in the same
structure (PKCS#1). The command 'openssl rsa -in domainname.key
-pubout -out domainname.pub' will take the portion that has been
designated as the
