Re: Key Encryption

2004-11-05 Thread Charles B Cranston
You are seriously lost. Private keys and public keys (certificates) are USED in performing RSA encryption, but they are not themselves encoded and/or transmitted under RSA encryption. Yes, keys for private-key encryption are sent under public key encryption, but a key for private key encryption i

Re: Key Encryption

2004-11-05 Thread Bernhard Froehlich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bernhard Froehlich wrote: one silly question: if I generate a request with openssl req -new -keyout mykey.pem -out myreq.pem 265 the private key in mykey.pem is encrypted or not? Since my openssl asks me for a password when using "openssl req -new -keyout mykey.pe

Re: Key Encryption

2004-11-05 Thread andrea
Bernhard Froehlich wrote: >> one silly question: if I generate a request with >> openssl req -new -keyout mykey.pem -out myreq.pem 265 >> the private key in mykey.pem is encrypted or not? >> > Since my openssl asks me for a password when using "openssl req -new -keyout > mykey.pem -out myreq.pem"

Re: Key Encryption

2004-11-05 Thread Bernhard Froehlich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, one silly question: if I generate a request with openssl req -new -keyout mykey.pem -out myreq.pem 265 the private key in mykey.pem is encrypted or not? Since my openssl asks me for a password when using "openssl req -new -keyout mykey.pem -out myreq.pem", I'd think