On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 01:13:08PM -0600, Rex Bloom wrote: > I am being required to generate the following type of digital signature: > > RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 A PKCS#1 v1.5 signature. > I am doing the following: > > openssl genrsa -aes128 -out private.pem 2048 You're generating a private key, that could be used to create PKCS#1 signatures of various objects, or could be used for some other RSA signature scheme. -- Viktor.