I’m using PyCrypto 2.3 and I would like to save the keys I have generated into a file, so as to distribute them to the client and server. I can’t seem to find a way to print the keys correctly, neither can I find examples on the internet.
def resetKeys(self):
keys = RSA.generate(1024)
privHandle = open(self.privateKeyFile, 'wb')
privHandle.write(keys.privatekey())
privHandle.close()
pubHandle = open(self.publicKeyFile, 'wb')
pubHandle.write(keys.publickey())
pubHandle.close()
This codes does not work for many reasons: first, keys.publickey()
doesn’t seem to be printable, it returns:
<_RSAobj @0x10f810d0 n(1024),e>
and second, keys
has no function named privatekey
.
Has anyone done that before?
keys.exportKey()
for the private key, keys.publickey().exportKey()
for the public key. You can change the output format with format
argument, see the docs at this site.