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This is used to create a new keypair and store the secret key inside the active PSE — which is in most cases a Soft-PSE. An not yet defined option allows to choose the storage location. To get the secret key out of the PSE, a special export tool has to be used.
GENKEY
Invokes the key generation process and the server will then inquire on the generation parameters, like:
S: INQUIRE KEYPARM C: D (genkey (rsa (nbits 1024))) C: END
The format of the key parameters which depends on the algorithm is of the form:
(genkey (algo (parameter_name_1 ....) .... (parameter_name_n ....)))
If everything succeeds, the server returns the *public key* in a SPKI like S-Expression like this:
(public-key (rsa (n <mpi>) (e <mpi>)))
Here is an example session:
C: GENKEY S: INQUIRE KEYPARM C: D (genkey (rsa (nbits 1024))) C: END S: D (public-key S: D (rsa (n 326487324683264) (e 10001))) S OK key created