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abhi
abhi

Reputation: 366

How to find ASN.1 components of EC key python-cryptography

I am generating a EC key using python cryptography module in this way

from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import ec
key=ec.generate_private_key(ec.SECP256R1(), default_backend())

The asn.1 structure of EC key is as follows

   ECPrivateKey ::= SEQUENCE {
 version        INTEGER { ecPrivkeyVer1(1) } (ecPrivkeyVer1),
 privateKey     OCTET STRING,
 parameters [0] ECParameters {{ NamedCurve }} OPTIONAL,
 publicKey  [1] BIT STRING OPTIONAL
 }

from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5915 setion 3.

my question is how to get the ASN.1 components from this key. I want to convert the key object to OpenSSH private key, something like

-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,9549ED842979FDAF5299BD7B0E25B384

Z+B7I6jfgC9C03Kcq9rbWKo88mA5+YqxSFpnfRG4wkm2eseWBny62ax9Y1izGPvb
J7gn2eBjEph9xobNewgPfW6/3ZDw9VGeaBAYRkSolNRadyN2Su6OaT9a2gKiVQi+
mqFeJmxsLyvew9XPkZqQIjML1d1M3T3oSA32zYX21UY=
-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----

It is easy with handling DSA or RSA because all the ASN.1 parameters are integers in that.

Thank You in advance

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1390

Answers (1)

Paul Kehrer
Paul Kehrer

Reputation: 14089

It's relatively easy to extract the public point from the ASN.1 sequence using pyasn1, but if you want PEM-encrypted PKCS1 (aka "traditional OpenSSL") then pyca/cryptography can do that quite easily:

from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import serialization
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import ec

backend = default_backend()

key = ec.generate_private_key(ec.SECP256R1(), backend)
serialized_key = key.private_bytes(
    serialization.Encoding.PEM, 
    serialization.PrivateFormat.TraditionalOpenSSL, 
    serialization.BestAvailableEncryption(b"my_great_password")
)

You can find more information about the private_bytes method in the docs. At this time BestAvailableEncryption will encrypt using AES-256-CBC.

Upvotes: 1

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