Apr 11, 2019  This tutorial will cover the basics for how to generate a RSA or ECDSA Private Key and a X509 Server Certificate for your application in C. For this tutorial, we will be using OpenSSL 1.1.0f. Important note: This tutorial is written for the modern version of OpenSSL, 1.1.x, and is not backwards compatible with OpenSSL 1.0.x. Like Thomas and Ilmari said, it's possible to derive a key pair for RSA (which is the easiest for me to deploy), but, since only the user needs to know his password to decrypt the files' private keys (and whatever personal info) and to encrypt new private keys, it's just as secure to use AES (again, easiest to deploy for me) with a simple KDF. $ endgroup$ – Flumble Jan 15 '12 at 12:16. Jul 09, 2019 Can I generate a new Private Key for my Certificate if I lose the old one? You can generate a new private key and CSR, or use the automatic CSR and key generation during Certificate reissue (this option is available for all Certificates except for the Multi-Domains). What does the Private Key look like? In WHM the private keys are stored along with the corresponding CSRs and certificates in “SSL Storage manager”. To get there, you can click “SSL/TLS” on the home screen and then on the “SSL Storage manager”. To open the private key text, you will need to click on the magnifier button in the first column called “Key”.

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You can login to a remote Linux server without entering password in 3 simple steps using ssky-keygen and ssh-copy-id as explained in this article.

ssh-keygen creates the public and private keys. ssh-copy-id copies the local-host’s public key to the remote-host’s authorized_keys file. ssh-copy-id also assigns proper permission to the remote-host’s home, ~/.ssh, and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

This article also explains 3 minor annoyances of using ssh-copy-id and how to use ssh-copy-id along with ssh-agent.

Step 1: Create public and private keys using ssh-key-gen on local-host

Is there a simple and deterministic way to generate a RSA key pair (private and public) based on a user's master password? Imagine an encrypted messenger application. Here the user wants to login on different devices using his password, and always have the same private and public key for sending and receiving messages. I do not see a host name anywhere in the keys, what file are you looking at? Ssh-keygen -f test -C noname Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in test. Your public key has been saved in test.pub.

Step 2: Copy the public key to remote-host using ssh-copy-id

Note: ssh-copy-id appends the keys to the remote-host’s .ssh/authorized_key.

Step 3: Login to remote-host without entering the password

The above 3 simple steps should get the job done in most cases.

We also discussed earlier in detail about performing SSH and SCP from openSSH to openSSH without entering password.

If you are using SSH2, we discussed earlier about performing SSH and SCP without password from SSH2 to SSH2 , from OpenSSH to SSH2 and from SSH2 to OpenSSH.

Using ssh-copy-id along with the ssh-add/ssh-agent

When no value is passed for the option -i and If ~/.ssh/identity.pub is not available, ssh-copy-id will display the following error message.

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If you have loaded keys to the ssh-agent using the ssh-add, then ssh-copy-id will get the keys from the ssh-agent to copy to the remote-host. i.e, it copies the keys provided by ssh-add -L command to the remote-host, when you don’t pass option -i to the ssh-copy-id.

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Three Minor Annoyances of ssh-copy-id

Following are few minor annoyances of the ssh-copy-id.

1. Default public key: ssh-copy-id uses ~/.ssh/identity.pub as the default public key file (i.e when no value is passed to option -i). Instead, I wish it uses id_dsa.pub, or id_rsa.pub, or identity.pub as default keys. i.e If any one of them exist, it should copy that to the remote-host. If two or three of them exist, it should copy identity.pub as default.
2. The agent has no identities: When the ssh-agent is running and the ssh-add -L returns “The agent has no identities” (i.e no keys are added to the ssh-agent), the ssh-copy-id will still copy the message “The agent has no identities” to the remote-host’s authorized_keys entry.
3. Duplicate entry in authorized_keys: I wish ssh-copy-id validates duplicate entry on the remote-host’s authorized_keys. If you execute ssh-copy-id multiple times on the local-host, it will keep appending the same key on the remote-host’s authorized_keys file without checking for duplicates. Even with duplicate entries everything works as expected. But, I would like to have my authorized_keys file clutter free.

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