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opensslkey-paired25519

Generating public ed25519 key with OpenSSL

I'm using this command to generate private ed25519 key:

openssl genpkey -algorithm ed25519 -out private.pem

and this is the example result:

-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
MC4CAQAwBQYDK2VwBCIEIAYIsKL0xkTkAXDhUN6eDheqODEOGyFZ04jsgFNCFxZf
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----

So then I want to generate a public key based on this private key and I do it like this:

openssl pkey -in private.pem -out public.pem

but with this command I still get a private key that looks like this:

-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
MC4CAQAwBQYDK2VwBCIEIAYIsKL0xkTkAXDhUN6eDheqODEOGyFZ04jsgFNCFxZf
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----

Additionally, this private and "public" key is not 32-bytes, but 64. What's wrong with my command?

Solution

  • This will return the public key as a file.

    openssl pkey -in private.pem -pubout -out public.pem