PKCS8
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Feature
Keys
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Description
Add a support for modern Key serialization into Transport class. Currently only support of PKCS#1 is present, modern serialization PKCS8 could not be used.
Eg. RSA key generated with:
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import rsa
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import serialization
RSAKeyGen = rsa.generate_private_key(public_exponent=65537,key_size=4096)
RSAPem = RSAKeyGen.private_bytes(
encoding=serialization.Encoding.PEM,
format=serialization.PrivateFormat.PKCS8,
encryption_algorithm=serialization.NoEncryption())
with open("./serverKey.pem", "wb") as f:
f.write(RSAPem)
Should be usable and not raise SSHException("'not a valid RSA private key file'") while loading the RSA key by paramiko RSAKey class
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Research direction
Start at the RSAKey loading path used by the Transport class and compare its handling of the PKCS#1 key with the PKCS8 example in the issue. Verify the change by loading the generated RSA private key through RSAKey without raising SSHException.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100