Classic ASP

Generate RSA Key and return Base64 PKCS8 Private Key

Demonstrates how to generate a new 2048-bit RSA private key and returns the Base64 encoded PKCS8 representation of the private key.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

set rsa = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rsa")

' Generate a 2048-bit key.  Chilkat RSA supports
' key sizes ranging from 512 bits to 8192 bits.
set privKey = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.PrivateKey")
success = rsa.GenKey(2048,privKey)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rsa.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Get the private key in PKCS8 Base64 format
privKeyPkcs8Base64 = privKey.GetPkcs8ENC("base64")

' The key in base64 format will start similar to this:
' MIIEvAIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BA...
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( privKeyPkcs8Base64) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>