OpenSSL

Creating a private key for token signing doesn’t need to be a mystery. Recently, I wrote about using OpenSSL to create keys suitable for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), and in this article, I am going to show you how to do the same for RSA private and public keys, suitable for signature generation with RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 and RSASSA-PSS.

Recently, I have been using OpenSSL to generate private keys and X509 certificates for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and then using them in ASP.NET Core for token signing.

In this article, I’m going to show you how to use OpenSSL to generate private and public keys on the curve of your choice.