-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Julius Davies wrote: > RSA keypair, right? If so, compare that the modulus of both the > certificate and the private key is equal. These two commands do the > trick: > > openssl x509 -in cert.pem -modulus -noout > > openssl rsa -in rsa.pem -modulus -noout > > > If on Unix, I imagine you can do this (ahhh... the glorious back-tick!): > > TEST1=`openssl x509 -in cert.pem -modulus -noout` > TEST2=`openssl rsa -in rsa.pem -modulus -noout` > if [ "$TEST1" = "$TEST2" ]; then echo 'equal'; else echo 'not equal'; fi; > > (Is it okay to only check the modulus? The public exponent can be > ignored? Is it always "Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)"?) No. You must compared modulis and exponent for an RSA key...
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