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Amrishinweb's avatar
Amrishinweb
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Sep 02, 2022

RSA Certificate & Key question

I have F5 box, I have installed 3 SSL profile like *.cn, *.com and *.ru. When I see F5 configuration, I see there are one id_rsa and onr id_rsa.pub keys. Just I need to clarify, those files contain...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Sep 03, 2022

Just cat the files to see what's inside.

cat id_rsa 
cat id_rsa.pub

My guess is you'lll see a single SSH cert and single SSH key, which is not what you're looking for. These are normally key file you'd use to SSH remote into a machine.

The TLS certificates you import for client SSL profiles are generally stored in the file system and will have a .crt or .cer extension.

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    Amrishinweb
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    Sep 05, 2022

    You are right, there is only single BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY- in id_rsa and single public key in id_rsa.pub.

     

    Could you please just let me know where do we use those keys as we use Active directory credentials to login to F5. Just write the purpose of those keys or any article, where I can read about them and we can close this topic.

     

    Thanl You.