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  • Committer: Jean-Paul Calderone
  • Date: 2011-04-11 23:26:11 UTC
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<b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="openssl-x509store.html">3.1.4 X509Store objects</A>
 
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<b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" href="openssl-crypto.html">3.1 crypto  </A>
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<b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="openssl-pkcs7.html">3.1.6 PKCS7 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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3.1.5 PKey objects 
 
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The PKey object has the following methods:
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-78'><tt class='method'>bits</tt></a></b>()
 
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-82'><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-79'><tt class='method'>generate_key</tt></a></b>(<var>type, bits</var>)
 
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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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Generate a public/private key pair of the type <var>type</var> (one of
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<tt class="constant">TYPE_RSA</tt> and <tt class="constant">TYPE_DSA</tt>) with the size <var>bits</var>.
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-80'><tt class='method'>type</tt></a></b>()
 
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Return the type of the key.
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<b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="openssl-x509store.html">3.1.4 X509Store objects</A>
 
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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">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" href="openssl-crypto.html">3.1 crypto  </A>
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<b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="openssl-pkcs7.html">3.1.6 PKCS7 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 0.11.</span>
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