Hmm. That does seem odd. Use openssl genrsa to generate the private key. Use openssl rsa -pubout to generate the public key from the private key.
Charles From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of ML Harmon Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 12:10 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: Creating a SSH Key pair - public and private for my Windows 2008 server app so it can communicate with a partner sftp site I was good with openssl until this link. http://www.openssl.org/docs/HOWTO/keys.txt It says openssl creates one file for both the public and private keys. That doesn't make sense to me. See my above link. "With OpenSSL, the private key contains the public key information as well, so a public key doesn't need to be generated separately." So how to I send my business partner the public key and I keep the private key if they are both in one file? So I am missing something here, I expected 2 files for my key a public and private. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: You can do this with the openssl.exe utility. I am less than an expert but the doc is here: http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/openssl.html Take a look at openssl.exe req -newkey Charles From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of ML Harmon Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 1:26 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Creating a SSH Key pair - public and private for my Windows 2008 server app so it can communicate with a partner sftp site I have a Windows 2008 server that runs an application I use to transfer files to my business partner's site via sftp. I need to generate a SSH key pair with openssl and then send my partner the public key while I keep the private key. I don't know how to do this with openssl, can someone help me? ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
