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How to generate keys in PEM formatusing the OpenSSL command line tools?

Generate elliptic curve key

The Generate ECC Key Pair (OPM, QC3GENECC; ILE, Qc3GenECCKeyPair) API generates a random ECC key pair given a set of domain parameters to be used with elliptic curve cryptographic algorithms such as ECDSA. Information on cryptographic standards can be found in Create Algorithm Context (OPM, QC3CRTAX; ILE, Qc3CreateAlgorithmContext) API. Oct 26, 2016  Generally, there is provided, a method for generating an elliptic curve cryptography key pair that uses two topologically identical pseudo-random number generators operating in parallel and in step with each other. One generator operates in the scalar number domain and the other generator operates in the elliptic curve point domain. Here are the steps to generate an EC private and public key pair: 1. Alice selects an elliptic curve subgroup defined by a set of domain parameters, (p,a,b,G,n,h).

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Generate Elliptic Curve Key Pair

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Key generator for prince of persia the forgotten sands. The JOSE standard recommends a minimum RSA key size of 2048 bits.

To generate a 2048-bit RSA private + public key pair for use in RSxxx and PSxxxsignatures:

Generate Elliptic Curve Key Pair Definition

Elliptic Curve keys

To generate an EC key pair the curve designation must be specified. Note thatJOSE ESxxx signatures require P-256, P-384 and P-521 curves (see theircorresponding OpenSSL identifiers below).

Elliptic Curve private + public key pair for use with ES256 signatures:

Elliptic Curve Cryptography Example

Elliptic Curve private + public key pair for use with ES384 signatures:

Elliptic Curve private + public key pair for use with ES512 signatures:

PEM key parsing in Java

The BouncyCastle library provides a simpleutility to parse PEM-encoded keys in Java, to use them for JWS or JWE later.

For Maven you should include the following BouncyCastle dependencies (where1.52 is the latest stable version as of May 2015):

Generate Elliptic Curve Key

Example parsing of an PEM-encoded EC key in Java:

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