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

To load an OpenSSL generated public key file with python-rsa library, try

with open('public_key.pub', mode='rb') as public_file:
    key_data = public_file.read()
    public_key = rsa.PublicKey.load_pkcs1_openssl_pem(key_data)