crypto-tools

crypto-tools is a python library containing tools to make some common cryptographic operations less painful. Currently, it supports:

• generate_private_key: Generating private RSA keys.
• show_file: Displaying a textual version of some common cryptographic files.

generate_private_key

Generates an RSA private key. Mostly, this is to encode sane defaults into a script, since openssl's defaults are insecure.

show_file

Currently, it just supports being fed in common cryptographic files (X.509 certificates and RSA keys) and emits a textual version of them by calling out to openssl. (But saving the invoker the tedious need to type the full openssl command.)

Example use:

$ python -m crypto_tools.show_file < my_cert.crt
< text description of certificate >

$ python -m crypto_tools.show_file < my_rsa_key.key
< text description of RSA key >