/* Generate an RSA key of a specified bitlength, and put it into a pair of key files. One is the public key in X.509 format (PEM encoded), the private key is in PKCS #8 format (also PEM encoded). Written by Jack Lloyd (lloyd@randombit.net), June 2-3, 2002 Updated to use X.509 and PKCS #8 on October 21, 2002 This file is in the public domain */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include using namespace Botan; int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { if(argc != 2 && argc != 3) { std::cout << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " bitsize [passphrase]" << std::endl; return 1; } u32bit bits = std::atoi(argv[1]); if(bits < 1024 || bits > 4096) { std::cout << "Invalid argument for bitsize" << std::endl; return 1; } std::ofstream pub("rsapub.pem"); std::ofstream priv("rsapriv.pem"); if(!priv || !pub) { std::cout << "Couldn't write output files" << std::endl; return 1; } try { RSA_PrivateKey key(bits, global_state().prng_reference()); pub << X509::PEM_encode(key); if(argc == 2) priv << PKCS8::PEM_encode(key); else priv << PKCS8::PEM_encode(key, argv[2]); } catch(std::exception& e) { std::cout << "Exception caught: " << e.what() << std::endl; } return 0; }