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Wyko
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Jul 12, 2023

How to make a password-protected private key via REST

Hey everyone!  Does anyone know how to use a REST command to create a password protected key? I tried the following, but it gave me the error:    {"code":400,"message":"\"passphrase\" may not be...
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phildotchon
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Aug 03, 2025

Hi JRahm​ 

the /tm/sys/crypto methods have been deprecated for a while, but rather the /tm/sys/file/ssl-key method instead.

I'm struggling to believe this, can you tell me where this depreciation is documented? The /tm/sys/file/ssl-key method seems to not actually allow the generation of a key withing the F5, it only allows one to be imported from elsewhere. If I try to create new by just specifying a name and key size, I get

"code": 400,
"message": "source-path is required.",
"errorStack": [],
"apiError": 26214401

 

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JRahm
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Aug 05, 2025

They sorta work in some scenarios, but when I was working on the imperative sdk years ago I was told to focus on the file commands as the crypto ones were deprecated. Also having a hard time finding that documented anywhere. I'm poking around on this, will let you know if I turn anything up.