On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Yaron Naveh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to generate a digital signature using the crypto module > for node.js (0.6.15). The following code prints nothing (on both a > windows and a linux machine) and res is of length 0. Also signer never > throws an exception no matter what dummy input I give as key. openssl > is installed in version 1.0.1. What am I doing wrong? > > > var crypto = require('crypto'); > var signer = crypto.createSign("RSA-SHA1") > signer.update("sign me!") > > //dummy key > var private_key = > "MIICdwIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCAmEwggJdAgEAAoGBAL4vpoH3H3byehjj" + > "7RAGxefGRATiq4mXtzc9Q91W7uT0DTaFEbjzVch9aGsNjmLs4QHsoZbuoUmi0st4" > + > "x5z9SQpTAKC/dW8muzacT3E7dJJYh03MAO6RiH4LG34VRTq1SQN6qDt2rCK85eG4" > + > "5NHI4jceptZNu6Zot1zyO5/PYuFpAgMBAAECgYAhspeyF3M/xB7WIixy1oBiXMLY" > + > "isESFAumgfhwU2LotkVRD6rgNl1QtMe3kCNWa9pCWQcYkxeI0IzA+JmFu2shVvoR" > + > "oL7eV4VCe1Af33z24E46+cY5grxNhHt/LyCnZKcitvCcrzXExUc5n6KngX0mMKgk" > + > "W7skZDwsnKzhyUV8wQJBAN2bQMeASQVOqdfqBdFgC/NPnKY2cuDi6h659QN1l+kg" > + > "X3ywdZ7KKftJo1G9l45SN9YpkyEd9zEO6PMFaufJvZUCQQDbtAWxk0i8BT3UTNWC" > + > "T/9bUQROPcGZagwwnRFByX7gpmfkf1ImIvbWVXSpX68/IjbjSkTw1nj/Yj1NwFZ0" > + > "nxeFAkEAzPhRpXVBlPgaXkvlz7AfvY+wW4hXHyyi0YK8XdPBi25XA5SPZiylQfjt" > + > "Z6iN6qSfYqYXoPT/c0/QJR+orvVJNQJBANhRPNXljVTK2GDCseoXd/ZiI5ohxg+W" > + > "UaA/1fDvQsRQM7TQA4NXI7BO/YmSk4rW1jIeOxjiIspY4MFAIh+7UL0CQFL6zTg6" > + > "wfeMlEZzvgqwCGoLuvTnqtvyg45z7pfcrg2cHdgCXIy9kErcjwGiu6BOevEA1qTW" > + > "Rk+bv0tknWvcz/s=" > > var res = signer.sign(private_key, output_format='base64') > console.log(res);
Your key needs to be in PEM format, it should have -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- and -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- markers. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
