Pascal (Lazarus/Delphi)

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

Pascal (Lazarus/Delphi)

program ChilkatDemo;

// Demonstrates using the Chilkat Pascal wrapper via the C bridge DLL.
// Builds as a console application under Lazarus (FPC) or Delphi.

{$IFDEF FPC}
  {$MODE DELPHI}
{$ENDIF}
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  {$IFDEF UNIX}
  cthreads,
  {$ENDIF}
  SysUtils,
  CkDllLoader,
  Chilkat.PrivateKey,
  Chilkat.Rsa;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

procedure RunDemo;
var
  success: Boolean;
  pkey: TPrivateKey;
  rsa: TRsa;
  strData: string;
  base64Sig: string;

begin
  success := False;

  //  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  //  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  pkey := TPrivateKey.Create;

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

  rsa := TRsa.Create;

  //  Import the private key into the RSA component:
  success := rsa.UsePrivateKey(pkey);
  if (success = False) then
    begin
      WriteLn(rsa.LastErrorText);
      Exit;
    end;

  //  OpenSSL uses BigEndian byte ordering:
  rsa.LittleEndian := False;

  //  The resulting signature will be a Base64 string:
  rsa.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.  
  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".
  base64Sig := rsa.SignStringENC(strData,'md5');

  WriteLn(base64Sig);

  WriteLn('Success!');


  pkey.Free;
  rsa.Free;

end;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

begin

  try
    RunDemo;
  except
    on E: Exception do
      WriteLn('Unhandled exception: ', E.ClassName, ': ', E.Message);
  end;

  WriteLn;
  {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS}
  WriteLn('Press Enter to exit...');
  ReadLn;
  {$ENDIF}
end.