Generate RSA private/public Key and save in PEM format from import default_backendįrom import rsaįrom import serializationĮncryptedpass = 'myverystrongpassword' # Generate an RSA Keys In this artricle we will cover two important python library and perform various RSA functions. Anyone can use the public key to encrypt a message, but with currently published methods, if the public key enough it is virtually impossible to decode the message.

The private KEY (prime factors) MUST BE KEPT SECRET. A user of RSA creates and publishes the product of two large prime numbers, along with an auxiliary value, as their public key. RSA stands for Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, who first publicly described the algorithm in 1978.

This sample chapter extracted from the book, Python Cryptograhy.