Perl Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Generate RSA Key and return Base64 PKCS8 Private Key

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Demonstrates how to generate a new 2048-bit RSA private key and returns the Base64 encoded PKCS8 representation of the private key. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $rsa = Chilkat2::Rsa->new;

# Generate a 2048-bit key.  Chilkat RSA supports
# key sizes ranging from 512 bits to 8192 bits.
my $privKey = Chilkat2::PrivateKey->new;
my $success = $rsa->GenKey(2048, $privKey);
if (!$success) {
    print $rsa->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Get the private key in PKCS8 Base64 format
my $privKeyPkcs8Base64 = $privKey->GetPkcs8ENC('base64');

# The key in base64 format will start similar to this:
# MIIEvAIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BA...
print $privKeyPkcs8Base64, "\n";