You may generate an RSA private key with the help of this tool. Additionally, it will display the public key of a generated or pasted private key.
- Router(config)# crypto key generate rsa general-purpose label mycs exportable The name for the keys will be: mycs Choose the size of the key modulus in the range of 360 to 2048 for your General Purpose Keys. Choosing a key modulus greater than 512 may take a few minutes.
- Cisco generate crypto key. Crypto key generate rsa general-keys label tokenkey1 storage usbtoken0: The following example specifies the redundancy keyword: Router(config)# crypto key generate rsa label MYKEYS redundancy. The name for the keys will be: MYKEYS Choose the size of the key modulus in the range of 360 to 2048 for your General Purpose.
SSH Config and crypto key generate RSA command. Use this command to generate RSA key pairs for your Cisco device (such as a router). Keys are generated in pairs–one public RSA key and one private RSA key. If your router already has RSA keys when you issue this command, you will be warned and prompted to replace the existing keys with new keys.
Description
RSA is an asymmetric encryption algorithm. With a given key pair, data that is encrypted with one key can only be decrypted by the other. This is useful for encrypting data between a large number of parties; only one key pair per person need exist. RSA is widely used across the internet with HTTPS.
To generate a key pair, select the bit length of your key pair and click Generate key pair. Depending on length, your browser may take a long time to generate the key pair. A 1024-bit key will usually be ready instantly, while a 4096-bit key may take up to several minutes. For a faster and more secure method, see Do It Yourself below.
CryptoTools.net does not yet have a tool for facilitating the encryption and decryption of data using RSA, but you may Do It Yourself with the instructions below.
Do It Yourself
For these steps, you will need a command line shell with OpenSSL. Ideally, you should have a private key of your own and a public key from someone else. For demonstration, we will only use a single key pair.
Generate Private Key
Crypto Key Generate Rsa Modulus 2048
Run this command to generate a 4096-bit private key and output it to the private.pem file. If you like, you may change the key length and/or output file.
Derive Public Key
Given a private key, you may derive its public key and output it to public.pem using this command. (You may also paste your OpenSSL-generated private key into the form above to get its public key.)
Encrypt Data
We can now use this key pair to encrypt and decrypt a file, data.txt.
Crypto Key Generate Rsa General-keys Label Ssh Mod 2048
Decrypt Data
Given the encrypted file from the previous step, you may decrypt it like so.