In Windows, use PuTTYgen to generate your public and private keys. If needed, download PuTTYgen from the PuTTY download page. (PuTTYgen might have been installed previously with PuTTY or WinSCP.) Launch the program, and then click the Generate button.
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| Demonstrates how to generate a new RSA public/private key pair and use it to generate a signature for a string. The (binary) digital signature is returned as a hexidecimalized string.
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-->Asymmetric private keys should never be stored verbatim or in plain text on the local computer. If you need to store a private key, you should use a key container. For more information on key containers, see Understanding Machine-Level and User-Level RSA Key Containers.
To create an asymmetric key and save it in a key container
Create a new instance of a CspParameters class and pass the name that you want to call the key container to the CspParameters.KeyContainerName field.
Create a new instance of a class that derives from the AsymmetricAlgorithm class (usually RSACryptoServiceProvider or DSACryptoServiceProvider) and pass the previously created CspParameters object to its constructor.
To delete the key from a key container
Openssl Generate Rsa Key Pair
Create a new instance of a CspParameters class and pass the name that you want to call the key container to the CspParameters.KeyContainerName field.
Create a new instance of a class that derives from the AsymmetricAlgorithm class (usually RSACryptoServiceProvider or DSACryptoServiceProvider) and pass the previously created CspParameters object to its constructor.
Set the PersistKeyInCSP property of the class that derives from AsymmetricAlgorithm to false (False in Visual Basic).
Call the Clear method of the class that derives from AsymmetricAlgorithm. This method releases all resources of the class and clears the key container.
Example
The following example demonstrates how to create an asymmetric key, save it in a key container, retrieve the key at a later time, and delete the key from the container.
Notice that code in the GenKey_SaveInContainer method and the GetKeyFromContainer method is similar. When you specify a key container name for a CspParameters object and pass it to an AsymmetricAlgorithm object with the PersistKeyInCsp property or PersistKeyInCsp property set to true, the following occurs. If a key container with the specified name does not exist, then one is created and the key is persisted. If a key container with the specified name does exist, then the key in the container is automatically loaded into the current AsymmetricAlgorithm object. Therefore, the code in the GenKey_SaveInContainer method persists the key because it is run first, while the code in the GetKeyFromContainer method loads the key because it is run second.