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DocuSign how to save the Private key as a .PEM file

From the JSON Web Token Bearer Grant guide, it was recommended that I should save the Private key as a .PEM file

Note: If you’re working with sample code from one of the SDKs, save the Private key as a .PEM file. The SDK is configured to read the private key value from a file with this extension.

So now that I have generated my private key:

 ----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY---- 
****
 ----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

How do I save this as a .PEM file, is it simply just pasting this private key into a notepad and instead of saving to a .txt file I should change the extension to .PEM?

Also is there any security reason why I should save the private key as a .pem instead of .txt?

Solution

  • You are correct, what counts is what is inside the file, not the extension.

    So you can either rename docusignPrivateKey.txt to docusignPrivateKey.pem or leave it as .txt