Swift

Generate an RSA Key and Get as Base64 DER

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Demonstrates how to generate a 2048-bit RSA key and return the public and private parts as unencrypted Base64 encoded DER. Swift

func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

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

    let rsa = CkoRsa()!

    // Generate a 2048-bit key.
    let privKey = CkoPrivateKey()!
    success = rsa.genKey(numBits: 2048, privKey: privKey)
    if success == false {
        print("\(rsa.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    // Get the public part of the key.
    let pubKey = CkoPublicKey()!
    privKey.toPublicKey(pubKey: pubKey)

    // There are two possible formats for representing the RSA public key 
    // in ASN.1 (DER).  The possible formats are PKCS1 and PKCS8.
    // We can get either by setting bChoosePkcs1 to true or false.
    var bChoosePkcs1: Bool = true
    var pubKeyBase64Der: String? = pubKey.getEncoded(preferPkcs1: bChoosePkcs1, encoding: "base64")
    print("Public Key Base64 DER:")
    print("\(pubKeyBase64Der!)")

    // Get the private key as Base64 DER:
    // We can get PKCS1 or PKCS8, but with different methods:
    var privKeyPkcs1: String? = privKey.getPkcs1ENC(encoding: "base64")
    print("Private Key PKCS1 Base64 DER:")
    print("\(privKeyPkcs1!)")

    var privKeyPkcs8: String? = privKey.getPkcs8ENC(encoding: "base64")
    print("Private Key PKCS8 Base64 DER:")
    print("\(privKeyPkcs8!)")

}