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cmdgen: add a --dump option.

Also spelled '-O text', this takes a public or private key as input,
and produces on standard output a dump of all the actual numbers
involved in the key: the exponent and modulus for RSA, the p,q,g,y
parameters for DSA, the affine x and y coordinates of the public
elliptic curve point for ECC keys, and all the extra bits and pieces
in the private keys too.

Partly I expect this to be useful to me for debugging: I've had to
paste key files a few too many times through base64 decoders and hex
dump tools, then manually decode SSH marshalling and paste the result
into the Python REPL to get an integer object. Now I should be able to
get _straight_ to text I can paste into Python.

But also, it's a way that other applications can use the key
generator: if you need to generate, say, an RSA key in some format I
don't support (I've recently heard of an XML-based one, for example),
then you can run 'puttygen -t rsa --dump' and have it print the
elements of a freshly generated keypair on standard output, and then
all you have to do is understand the output format.
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Simon Tatham
2020-02-17 19:53:19 +00:00
parent 96f1fb9456
commit c18e5dc8fb
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@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ testcrypt : [UT] testcrypt SSHCRYPTO sshprng sshprime sshpubk marshal utils
testcrypt : [C] testcrypt SSHCRYPTO sshprng sshprime sshpubk marshal utils
+ memory tree234 winmiscs KEYGEN
testsc : [UT] testsc SSHCRYPTO marshal utils memory tree234 wildcard
+ sshmac uxutils
+ sshmac uxutils sshpubk
testzlib : [UT] testzlib sshzlib utils marshal memory
uppity : [UT] uxserver SSHSERVER UXMISC uxsignal uxnoise uxgss uxnogtk