You can’t just change the delimiters from —- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY —- to —–BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY—– and expect that it will be sufficient to convert from one format to another (which is what you’ve done in your example). This article has a good explanation about both formats. What you get in an RSA … Read more
Looks like the secret key isn’t on the other machine, so even with the right passphrase (read from a file) it wouldn’t work. These options should work, to Either copy the keyrings (maybe only secret keyring required, but public ring is public anyway) over to the other machine Or export the secret key & then … Read more
What I’d like to know is simple. Can I use OpenSSL to encrypt a string “hello” with a private key then send it to everyone who can decrypt it with the public key to retrieve the original string. I’ve searched all around and can’t really find anything. Mathematically I can use the private exponent and … Read more