Unicode C++

Generate an RSA Key and Get as Base64 DER

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Demonstrates how to generate a 2048-bit RSA key and return the public and private parts as unencrypted Base64 encoded DER. Unicode C++

#include <CkRsaW.h>
#include <CkPrivateKeyW.h>
#include <CkPublicKeyW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkRsaW rsa;

    // Generate a 2048-bit key.
    CkPrivateKeyW privKey;
    success = rsa.GenKey(2048,privKey);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",rsa.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    // Get the public part of the key.
    CkPublicKeyW pubKey;
    privKey.ToPublicKey(pubKey);

    // There are two possible formats for representing the RSA public key 
    // in ASN.1 (DER).  The possible formats are PKCS1 and PKCS8.
    // We can get either by setting bChoosePkcs1 to true or false.
    bool bChoosePkcs1 = true;
    const wchar_t *pubKeyBase64Der = pubKey.getEncoded(bChoosePkcs1,L"base64");
    wprintf(L"Public Key Base64 DER:\n");
    wprintf(L"%s\n",pubKeyBase64Der);

    // Get the private key as Base64 DER:
    // We can get PKCS1 or PKCS8, but with different methods:
    const wchar_t *privKeyPkcs1 = privKey.getPkcs1ENC(L"base64");
    wprintf(L"Private Key PKCS1 Base64 DER:\n");
    wprintf(L"%s\n",privKeyPkcs1);

    const wchar_t *privKeyPkcs8 = privKey.getPkcs8ENC(L"base64");
    wprintf(L"Private Key PKCS8 Base64 DER:\n");
    wprintf(L"%s\n",privKeyPkcs8);
    }