The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- This module allows one to (re)generate OpenSSL private keys.
- One can generate RSA, DSA, ECC or EdDSA private keys.
- Keys are generated in PEM format.
- Please note that the module regenerates private keys if they don’t match the module’s options. In particular, if you provide another passphrase (or specify none), change the keysize, etc., the private key will be regenerated. If you are concerned that this could overwrite your private key, consider using the backup option.
- The module can use the cryptography Python library, or the pyOpenSSL Python library. By default, it tries to detect which one is available. This can be overridden with the select_crypto_backend option. Please note that the PyOpenSSL backend was deprecated in Ansible 2.9 and will be removed in Ansible 2.13.”
(To generate an encrypted key/certificate pair, refer to Generating an Encrypted Private Key and Self-Signed Public Certificate.) General Information When operating in a FIPS-approved mode, PKI key/certificates must be between 1024- bits and 4096-bits, inclusive. While Encrypting a File with a Password from the Command Line using OpenSSL is very useful in its own right, the real power of the OpenSSL library is its ability to support the use of public key cryptograph for encrypting or validating data in an unattended manner (where the password is not required to encrypt) is done with public keys. Let's quickly review the basics. An RSA public key consists of two values: the modulus n (a product of two secretly chosen large primes p and q), and; the public exponent e (which can be the same for many keys and is typically chosen to be a small odd prime, most commonly either 3 or 2 16 +1 = 65537).
![Generate Generate](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126072111/637962187.jpg)
- Either cryptography >= 1.2.3 (older versions might work as well)
- Or pyOpenSSL
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
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attributes
string
|
The attributes the resulting file or directory should have.
To get supported flags look at the man page for chattr on the target system.
This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by lsattr.
The
= operator is assumed as default, otherwise + or - operators need to be included in the string.
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backup
added in 2.8
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|
Create a backup file including a timestamp so you can get the original private key back if you overwrote it with a new one by accident.
|
cipher
string
|
The cipher to encrypt the private key. (Valid values can be found by running `openssl list -cipher-algorithms` or `openssl list-cipher-algorithms`, depending on your OpenSSL version.)
|
|
curve
added in 2.8
|
|
Note that not all curves are supported by all versions of
cryptography .
For maximal interoperability,
secp384r1 or secp256r1 should be used.
We use the curve names as defined in the IANA registry for TLS.
|
force
boolean
|
|
Should the key be regenerated even if it already exists.
|
group
string
|
Name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown.
|
|
mode
string
|
The permissions the resulting file or directory should have.
For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must either add a leading zero so that Ansible's YAML parser knows it is an octal number (like
0644 or 01777 ) or quote it (like '644' or '1777' ) so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number.
Giving Ansible a number without following one of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results.
As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example,
u+rwx or u=rw,g=r,o=r ).
As of Ansible 2.6, the mode may also be the special string
preserve .
When set to
preserve the file will be given the same permissions as the source file.
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|
owner
string
|
Name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown.
|
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passphrase
string
|
The passphrase for the private key.
|
|
path
path / required
|
Name of the file in which the generated TLS/SSL private key will be written. It will have 0600 mode.
|
|
select_crypto_backend
string
|
|
The default choice is
auto , which tries to use cryptography if available, and falls back to pyopenssl .
If set to
pyopenssl , will try to use the pyOpenSSL library.
If set to
cryptography , will try to use the cryptography library.
Please note that the
pyopenssl backend has been deprecated in Ansible 2.9, and will be removed in Ansible 2.13. From that point on, only the cryptography backend will be available.
|
selevel
string
|
Default: |
The level part of the SELinux file context.
This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the
range .
When set to
_default , it will use the level portion of the policy if available.
|
serole
string
|
When set to
_default , it will use the role portion of the policy if available.
|
|
setype
string
|
When set to
_default , it will use the type portion of the policy if available.
|
|
seuser
string
|
By default it uses the
system policy, where applicable.
When set to
_default , it will use the user portion of the policy if available.
|
|
size
integer
|
Default: |
Size (in bits) of the TLS/SSL key to generate.
|
state
string
|
|
Whether the private key should exist or not, taking action if the state is different from what is stated.
|
type
string
|
|
The algorithm used to generate the TLS/SSL private key.
Note that
ECC , X25519 , X448 , Ed25519 and Ed448 require the cryptography backend. X25519 needs cryptography 2.5 or newer, while X448 , Ed25519 and Ed448 require cryptography 2.6 or newer. For ECC , the minimal cryptography version required depends on the curve option.
|
unsafe_writes
boolean
|
|
Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target file.
By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target files, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted files, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner.
This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating files when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn't force Ansible to perform unsafe writes).
IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption.
|
See also
- openssl_certificate – Generate and/or check OpenSSL certificates
- The official documentation on the openssl_certificate module.
- openssl_csr – Generate OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
- The official documentation on the openssl_csr module.
- openssl_dhparam – Generate OpenSSL Diffie-Hellman Parameters
- The official documentation on the openssl_dhparam module.
- openssl_pkcs12 – Generate OpenSSL PKCS#12 archive
- The official documentation on the openssl_pkcs12 module.
- openssl_publickey – Generate an OpenSSL public key from its private key
- The official documentation on the openssl_publickey module.
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key | Returned | Description |
---|---|---|
backup_file
string
|
changed and if backup is yes |
Sample:
|
curve | changed or success, and type is ECC |
Elliptic curve used to generate the TLS/SSL private key.
secp256r1
|
filename
string
|
changed or success |
Sample:
|
fingerprint | changed or success |
The fingerprint of the public key. Fingerprint will be generated for each
hashlib.algorithms available.
The PyOpenSSL backend requires PyOpenSSL >= 16.0 for meaningful output.
{'md5': '84:75:71:72:8d:04:b5:6c:4d:37:6d:66:83:f5:4c:29', 'sha1': '51:cc:7c:68:5d:eb:41:43:88:7e:1a:ae:c7:f8:24:72:ee:71:f6:10', 'sha224': 'b1:19:a6:6c:14:ac:33:1d:ed:18:50:d3:06:5c:b2:32:91:f1:f1:52:8c:cb:d5:75:e9:f5:9b:46', 'sha256': '41:ab:c7:cb:d5:5f:30:60:46:99:ac:d4:00:70:cf:a1:76:4f:24:5d:10:24:57:5d:51:6e:09:97:df:2f:de:c7', 'sha384': '85:39:50:4e:de:d9:19:33:40:70:ae:10:ab:59:24:19:51:c3:a2:e4:0b:1c:b1:6e:dd:b3:0c:d9:9e:6a:46:af:da:18:f8:ef:ae:2e:c0:9a:75:2c:9b:b3:0f:3a:5f:3d', 'sha512': 'fd:ed:5e:39:48:5f:9f:fe:7f:25:06:3f:79:08:cd:ee:a5:e7:b3:3d:13:82:87:1f:84:e1:f5:c7:28:77:53:94:86:56:38:69:f0:d9:35:22:01:1e:a6:60:..:0f:9b'}
|
size
integer
|
changed or success |
Sample:
|
type | changed or success |
Algorithm used to generate the TLS/SSL private key.
RSA
|
- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]
Authors¶
- Yanis Guenane (@Spredzy)
- Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)
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< Cryptography
Download and install the OpenSSL runtimes. If you are running Windows, grab the Cygwin package.
OpenSSL can generate several kinds of public/private keypairs.RSA is the most common kind of keypair generation.[1]
Other popular ways of generating RSA public key / private key pairs include PuTTYgen and ssh-keygen.[2][3]
Generate an RSA keypair with a 2048 bit private key[edit]
![Openssl generate public key from rsa private key code Openssl generate public key from rsa private key code](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126072111/697007772.png)
Generate Rsa Public Key
Execute command: 'openssl genpkey -algorithm RSA -out private_key.pem -pkeyopt rsa_keygen_bits:2048'[4] (previously “openssl genrsa -out private_key.pem 2048”)
e.g.
Make sure to prevent other users from reading your key by executing chmod go-r private_key.pem afterward.
Extracting the public key from an RSA keypair[edit]
Execute command: 'openssl rsa -pubout -in private_key.pem -out public_key.pem'
e.g.
A new file is created, public_key.pem, with the public key.
It is relatively easy to do some cryptographic calculations to calculate the public key from the prime1 and prime2 values in the public key file.However, OpenSSL has already pre-calculated the public key and stored it in the private key file.So this command doesn't actually do any cryptographic calculation -- it merely copies the public key bytes out of the file and writes the Base64 PEM encoded version of those bytes into the output public key file.[5]
Jul 07, 2017 The nonce is optional, typically the nonce is a chunck of random data you get from the user. This can be mouse coordinates. Using a nonce adds randomness, which means the generated private key is stronger. Three very small observations: In your function generateprivatekeywif, you never use hashed, you re-compute it for the return value. In a nice self-contained module like this one, you should definitely add docstrings to your functions.Have a look at PEP257 to see how they are defined. You currently do from ecdsa.keys import SigningKey, but never use it. I'm writing simple code in C using OpenSSL to generate valid bitcoin address - private key pair. I'm using this snippet to generate public key from given hex-form private key: #include. Using OpenSSL ver 1.1.0h on win 8.1 - 32 bit Im trying to recreate this post using cmd: OpenSSL generate Bitcoin address But on step 3: openssl ec -in c:keysprivate.pem -outform DER tail -c +8. Mar 09, 2016 Clone via HTTPS Clone with Git or checkout with SVN using the repository’s web address. Bitcoin ecdsa key openssl generate address.
Viewing the key elements[edit]
Execute command: 'openssl rsa -text -in private_key.pem'
All parts of private_key.pem are printed to the screen. This includes the modulus (also referred to as public key and n), public exponent (also referred to as e and exponent; default value is 0x010001), private exponent, and primes used to create keys (prime1, also called p, and prime2, also called q), a few other variables used to perform RSA operations faster, and the Base64 PEM encoded version of all that data.[6](The Base64 PEM encoded version of all that data is identical to the private_key.pem file).
Password-less login[edit]
Often a person will set up an automated backup process that periodically backs up all the content on one 'working' computer onto some other 'backup' computer.
Because that person wants this process to run every night, even if no human is anywhere near either one of these computers, using a 'password-protected' private key won't work -- that person wants the backup to proceed right away, not wait until some human walks by and types in the password to unlock the private key.Many of these people generate 'a private key with no password'.[7]Some of these people, instead, generate a private key with a password,and then somehow type in that password to 'unlock' the private key every time the server reboots so that automated toolscan make use of the password-protected keys.[8][3]
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Further reading[edit]
- ↑Key Generation
- ↑Michael Stahnke.'Pro OpenSSH'.p. 247.
- ↑ ab'SourceForge.net Documentation: SSH Key Overview'
- ↑'genpkey(1) - Linux man page'
- ↑'Public – Private key encryption using OpenSSL'
- ↑'OpenSSL 1024 bit RSA Private Key Breakdown'
- ↑'DreamHost: Personal Backup'.
- ↑Troy Johnson.'Using Rsync and SSH: Keys, Validating, and Automation'.
- Internet_Technologies/SSH describes how to use 'ssh-keygen' and 'ssh-copy-id' on your local machine so you can quickly and securely ssh from your local machine to a remote host.
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