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RSA 2048 Key-Pair Generation

Generate Private Key

openssl genrsa -out mykey.pem 2048

Generate Public key using Private Key

openssl rsa -in mykey.pem -pubout > mykey.pub

File Permission

chmod 400 mykey.pem

To get a usable public key for SSH purposes (eg AWS EC2)

ssh-keygen -y -f key.pem > key.pub

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