<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >openssl_pkey_new</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual de PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="OpenSSL functions" HREF="ref.openssl.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="openssl_pkey_get_public" HREF="function.openssl-pkey-get-public.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="openssl_private_decrypt" HREF="function.openssl-private-decrypt.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual de PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.openssl-pkey-get-public.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.openssl-private-decrypt.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.openssl-pkey-new" ></A >openssl_pkey_new</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN56253" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)</P >openssl_pkey_new -- Generates a new private key </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN56256" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >resource <B CLASS="methodname" >openssl_pkey_new</B > ( [array configargs])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >openssl_pkey_new()</B > generates a new private and public key pair. The public component of the key can be obtained using <A HREF="function.openssl-pkey-get-public.html" ><B CLASS="function" >openssl_pkey_get_public()</B ></A >. You can finetune the key generation (such as specifying the number of bits) using <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >configargs</I ></TT >. See <A HREF="function.openssl-csr-new.html" ><B CLASS="function" >openssl_csr_new()</B ></A > for more information about <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >configargs</I ></TT >. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Nota: </B > You need to have a valid <TT CLASS="filename" >openssl.cnf</TT > installed for this function to operate correctly. See the notes under <A HREF="ref.openssl.html#openssl.installation" >the installation section</A > for more information. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.openssl-pkey-get-public.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Inicio</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.openssl-private-decrypt.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >openssl_pkey_get_public</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.openssl.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Subir</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >openssl_private_decrypt</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >