How to load a public RSA key into Python-RSA from a file?

Question

I generated a private and a public key using OpenSSL with the following commands:

openssl genrsa -out private_key.pem 512
openssl rsa -in private_key.pem -pu         


        

Answer 1

If on Python3, You also need to open the key in binary mode, e.g:

with open('private_key.pem', 'rb') as privatefile: