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Get a PrivateKey from a RSA .pem file [duplicate]

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I’m using BouncyCastle 1.57 (bcprov-jdk15on, bcmail-jdk15on and bcpkix-jdk15on) and Java 7. You can read the private key using the JcaPEMKeyConverter class. The code below works for keys with and without a password: import org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider; import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMDecryptorProvider; import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMEncryptedKeyPair; import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMKeyPair; import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser; import org.bouncycastle.openssl.jcajce.JcaPEMKeyConverter; import org.bouncycastle.openssl.jcajce.JcePEMDecryptorProviderBuilder; // don’t forget to add the provider Security.addProvider(new BouncyCastleProvider()); … Read more

How to Grant permission to user on Certificate private key using powershell?

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Here is the Answer. Created a powershell script file AddUserToCertificate.ps1 Here is the content for script file. param( [string]$userName, [string]$permission, [string]$certStoreLocation, [string]$certThumbprint ); # check if certificate is already installed $certificateInstalled = Get-ChildItem cert:$certStoreLocation | Where thumbprint -eq $certThumbprint # download & install only if certificate is not already installed on machine if ($certificateInstalled -eq … Read more

Vagrant ssh authentication failure

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For general information: by default to ssh-connect you may simply use user: vagrant password: vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/boxes/base.html#quot-vagrant-quot-user First, try: to see what vagrant insecure_private_key is in your machine config $ vagrant ssh-config Example: $ vagrant ssh-config Host default HostName 127.0.0.1 User vagrant Port 2222 UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null StrictHostKeyChecking no PasswordAuthentication no IdentityFile C:/Users/konst/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key IdentitiesOnly yes LogLevel FATAL … Read more

Differences between “BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY” and “BEGIN PRIVATE KEY”

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See https://polarssl.org/kb/cryptography/asn1-key-structures-in-der-and-pem (search the page for “BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY”) (archive link for posterity, just in case). BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY is PKCS#1 and is just an RSA key. It is essentially just the key object from PKCS#8, but without the version or algorithm identifier in front. BEGIN PRIVATE KEY is PKCS#8 and indicates that … Read more