Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition

Private key

Execute the following command to generate the private key:

$ openssl genpkey -algorithm RSA -out privatekey.pem -pkeyopt \ rsa_keygen_bits:1024
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The backslash (\) used in the commands are for continuation

After executing the command, a file named privatekey.pem is produced, which contains the generated private key as follows:

$ cat privatekey.pem
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
MIICdgIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCAmAwggJcAgEAAoGBAKJOFBzPy2vOd6em Bk/UGrzDy7TvgDYnYxBfiEJId/r+EyMt/F14k2fDTOVwxXaXTxiQgD+BKuiey/69 9itnrqW/xy/pocDMvobj8QCngEntOdNoVSaN+t0f9nRM3iVM94mz3/C/v4vXvoac PyPkr/0jhIV0woCurXGTghgqIbHRAgMBAAECgYEAlB3s/N4lJh0l1TkOSYunWtzT 6isnNkR7g1WrY9H+rG9xx4kP5b1DyE3SvxBLJA6xgBle8JVQMzm3sKJrJPFZzzT5 ...