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October 27, 2016 14:45
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Create Public/Private keypair in PEM format for JWTs
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| # ssh-keygen creates Keys that aren't in PEM format, but JWT tokens mandate | |
| # PEM format. So, we have to convert them with OpenSSL. | |
| ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f jwtRS256.key | |
| # Press Enter when prompted for passphrase. | |
| openssl rsa -in jwtRS256.key -pubout -outform PEM -out jwtRS256.key.pub | |
| cat jwtRS256.key | |
| cat jwtRS256.key.pub |
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