Re: [DNSOP] Specification of DNSKEY "Private-key-format"
Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> Thu, 29 August 2019 13:48 UTC
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Specification of DNSKEY "Private-key-format"
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 06:25:02PM +0530, Mukund Sivaraman wrote: > A tool such as BIND's dnssec-keygen generates the following formatted > private keys: > > [muks@naina ~]$ cat Kexample.org.+008+10638.private > Private-key-format: v1.3 > Algorithm: 8 (RSASHA256) > Modulus: [...] > PublicExponent: [...] > PrivateExponent: [...] > Prime1: [...] > Prime2: [...] > Exponent1: [...] > Exponent2: [...] > Coefficient: [...] Compare the above with: $ openssl genrsa 512 2>/dev/null | openssl rsa -text -noout | egrep -v ':..:' RSA Private-Key: (512 bit, 2 primes) modulus: publicExponent: 65537 (0x10001) privateExponent: prime1: prime2: exponent1: exponent2: coefficient: And it becomes clear that what you're seeing is a sequence of tagged base64 encodings of the BIGNUM elements of the CRT form of an RSA private key. > Created: [...] > Publish: 20190829125147 > Activate: 20190829125147 Plus some additional metadata. > I have looked around for a specification for this format, but I fail to > find one. Where is this specified? Has it ever been described in some > document? This looks like an ad-hoc format, specific to dnssec-keygen and friends. In particular "Publish:" and "Activate:" are not part of the key per-se and are rather related to the DNSSEC key lifecycle. -- Viktor.
- [DNSOP] Specification of DNSKEY "Private-key-form… Mukund Sivaraman
- Re: [DNSOP] Specification of DNSKEY "Private-key-… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [DNSOP] Specification of DNSKEY "Private-key-… Mukund Sivaraman
- Re: [DNSOP] Specification of DNSKEY "Private-key-… Evan Hunt
- Re: [DNSOP] Specification of DNSKEY "Private-key-… Mukund Sivaraman
- Re: [DNSOP] Specification of DNSKEY "Private-key-… Evan Hunt
- Re: [DNSOP] Specification of DNSKEY "Private-key-… Mukund Sivaraman
- Re: [DNSOP] Specification of DNSKEY "Private-key-… Viktor Dukhovni