Generate private and public SSH keys (RSA and DSA supported) using Ruby without the ssh-keygen system command.
gem install sshkey
Tested on the following Rubies: MRI 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, Rubinius, REE. Ruby must be compiled with OpenSSL support.
When generating a new keypair the default key type is 2048-bit RSA, but you can supply the type (RSA or DSA) and bits in the options.
You can also (optionally) supply a comment:
k = SSHKey.generate
k = SSHKey.generate(:type => "DSA", :bits => 1024, :comment => "[email protected]")Return an SSHKey object from an existing RSA or DSA private key (provided as a string)
k = SSHKey.new(File.read("~/.ssh/id_rsa"), :comment => "[email protected]")Both of these will return an SSHKey object with the following methods:
# Returns an OpenSSL::PKey::RSA or OpenSSL::PKey::DSA key object
# http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/classes/OpenSSL/PKey/RSA.html
# http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/classes/OpenSSL/PKey/DSA.html
k.key_object
# => -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nMIIEowI...
# Returns the Private Key as a string
k.private_key
# => "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nMIIEowI..."
# Returns the Public Key as a string
k.public_key
# => "-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBCg..."
# Returns the SSH Public Key as a string
k.ssh_public_key
# => "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EA...."
# Returns the comment as a string
k.comment
# => "[email protected]"
# Returns the fingerprint as a string
k.fingerprint
# => "2a:89:84:c9:29:05:d1:f8:49:79:1c:ba:73:99:eb:af"
# Validates SSH Public Key
SSHKey.valid? "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EA...."
# => trueCopyright (c) 2011 James Miller