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  • Committer: Jean-Paul Calderone
  • Date: 2011-09-02 15:43:50 UTC
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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<b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="openssl-x509store.html">3.1.5 X509Store objects</A>
 
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3.1.6 PKey objects 
 
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The PKey object has the following methods:
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-82'><tt class='method'>bits</tt></a></b>()
 
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-81'><tt class='method'>bits</tt></a></b>()
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Return the number of bits of the key.
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-83'><tt class='method'>generate_key</tt></a></b>(<var>type, bits</var>)
 
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-82'><tt class='method'>generate_key</tt></a></b>(<var>type, bits</var>)
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Generate a public/private key pair of the type <var>type</var> (one of
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-84'><tt class='method'>type</tt></a></b>()
 
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Return the type of the key.
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Check the consistency of this key, returning True if it is consistent and
 
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OpenSSL RSA_check_key man page for further limitations.
 
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<b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="openssl-x509store.html">3.1.5 X509Store objects</A>
 
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<b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="openssl-pkcs7.html">3.1.7 PKCS7 objects</A>
 
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<span class="release-info">Release 0.12.</span>
 
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<span class="release-info">Release 0.13.</span>
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