C++

Duplicate openssl dgst -md5 -sign myKey.pem something.txt | openssl enc -base64 -A

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Demonstrates how to duplicate the creation of an RSA signature produced by this OpenSSL command:

openssl dgst -md5 -sign myKey.pem something.txt | openssl enc -base64 -A

C++

#include <CkPrivateKey.h>
#include <CkRsa.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.

    CkPrivateKey pkey;

    // Load the private key from an RSA PEM file:
    success = pkey.LoadPemFile("myKey.pem");

    CkRsa rsa;

    // Import the private key into the RSA component:
    success = rsa.UsePrivateKey(pkey);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << rsa.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    // OpenSSL uses BigEndian byte ordering:
    rsa.put_LittleEndian(false);

    // The resulting signature will be a Base64 string:
    rsa.put_EncodingMode("base64");

    // For simplicity, we're not loading
    // the data to be signed from a file.  We are instead simply
    // using a literal string value.  
    const char *strData = "This is the text to be signed.";

    // Hash the input using MD5, and then sign the hash:
    // Other valid hash algorithm choices are "md2" and "sha-1".
    const char *base64Sig = rsa.signStringENC(strData,"md5");

    std::cout << base64Sig << "\r\n";

    std::cout << "Success!" << "\r\n";
    }