NAME
read-sshkey - extract key material from a Secure Shell keyfile SYNOPSIS
read-sshkey infile outfile
DESCRIPTION
The program writes a complete PCP keyfile to "outfile" after having extracted the key material from "infile". The input can be any SSH key.
The value 1 will be used for the hash modulus and generator and both values should be substituted with a valid hashkey subsequently.In case of a secret key the key must be stored unprotected, i.e. with an empty passphrase in order to extract the secret decryption value, because the program does not use any symmetric cipher. Use protect-secretkey to encrypt the secret key with PCP's protection mechanism and wipe all files containing unencrypted data from the filesystem reliably.
Additionally the two primes p and q are printed to stdout when a secret key is processed.
AUTHOR
Written by Ralf Senderek. COPYRIGHT
All rights reserved. © 2003
This is free software. Use this software on your own risk or not at all. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.SEE ALSO
pcp - the Pure Crypto Program (http://senderek.ie/research/pcp)
protect-secretkey, read-pgpkey, read-opensslkey, sechash, check-keys