Tag Archives: private key

SSL: Verifying that a Certificate matches a Private Key

Posted by on May 6, 2009 2 comments

The private key contains a series of numbers. Two of those numbers form the “public key”, the others are part of your “private key”. The “public key” bits are also embedded in your Certificate (we get them from your CSR). …

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Howto: Convert an OpenSSL key to a public/private OpenSSH key-pair

Posted by on April 11, 2009 1 comment

This howto demonstrates how to convert an OpenSSL key to a public/private OpenSSH key-pair. The motivation for converting this is simple — dual use. That is to say, any user or application that has been issued a certificate can now …

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Howto Create Generate a Certificate Signing Request

Posted by on August 25, 2007 Comments Off

This howto describes the instructions to generate a CSR for your Web site. When you have completed the outlined steps. In this guide I use OpenSSL, which is the open source project that replaced SSLeay. Create a RSA private key …

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