RSA-SHA1 Public key error

[Raihan Shahzad 1208205]

Hi,

 

i have been facing an error for SSO while saving Public key to Authentication Method RSA-SHA1, error is

 

Your public key was invalid

 

Not much expert in this type of stuff before, however i have generated the private & public RSA-SHA1 keys using OpenSSL with following commands:

 

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -sha1 -subj '/C=KW/ST=Kuwait/L=Hawalli/CN=www.vatwa.net' -keyout vatwaprivate.pem -out vatwacert.pem
openssl rsa -in vatwaprivate.pem -outform PEM -pubout -out vatwapublicnew.pem

 

Any help will be appreciated.

[Johan Tiesinga]

Hi,

 

What you've generated with those commands are Certificates which use RSA as their keys. What you need is just a plain RSA key pair. You can find the commands to generate those at the bottom of this post: https://forums.vatsim.net/viewtopic.php?f=134&t=65339

 

Kind regards,

Johan.

[Raihan Shahzad 1208205]

Thank you Johan, generated the keys with the commands described

 

openssl genrsa -out keyname.pem 2048

 

and slightly modified command to extract public key

 

openssl rsa -in keyname.pem -pubout -out keyname.pub

 

Error remain same while saving the Public key for RSA-SHA1 Authentication method

 

Your public key was invalid

[Neil Farrington]

Hi Raihan,

 

Are you copying the key with the '-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----' and '-----END PUBLIC KEY-----' sections? You should make sure you include these parts when saving the key.

[Raihan Shahzad 1208205]

Hi Neil,

 

No, i am not copying these while saving, do i need to?

 

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- and -----END PUBLIC KEY-----

[Raihan Shahzad 1208205]

Update, public key saved

 

Thanks Neil for help