robert.sicoie at gmail
Aug 13, 2008, 7:54 AM
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Encoding SSH RSA public key
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Hello,
I'm trying to build a valid public ssh v2 RSA key from a java
application but I have some problems understanding how the two numbers
(e and n) are base64 encoded into ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub or
~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file.
My question is what exactly is encoded into the base64 string? For
example for this public key:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA6p76zG+8aOkFZT1y4O+Y7n
+n0jWo6eW3DDPWVMddrR6z37uUsCZXPm1a6Inogp4NOt6UNaa1IrEtRkCWKF/kWoAzpVeJsJCXNc7EGzSBG9Q0JZ43F07X9mQHneUi+SKwDl/dp5O2Mnyi/az2OatyW1XNnpf94yJC1dhPnJSgXNAmp2R5Bq5qktzo0GMUfw11rdZzVNBMwgxZVp6mvuvgQFQ3xJVRIGE54IpW6iTXLOgxCSwL8Xj37fI22wOg7mYlNMIzyy3vUqyx73e00VnxxVp0DcaM347bFvyrRSm3hnBVDmdbTjP/ryHobNpSbPrP6vzNVww5Y61OFyTa60OPjQ== robert[at]robert
There must be options (optional), bits, e, n and comments (optional),
but how are these represented before encoding? Are each of these data
encoded to base64 separately and then concatenated? What exactly is
encoded?
Could anyone describe me the algorithm for obtaining the base64 string?
I couldn't find it anywhere.
Thanks,
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Robert
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Encoding SSH RSA public key
