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This guide goes through setting up SSH keys on macOS Mojave 10.14 back to Mac OSX 10.11 and also a secure password-less SSH connection between a local macOS workstation and a remote server also running a Linux variant operating system.

May 28, 2006  Key generation and exchange. Since Mac OS X is just like any other UNIX, this should be basic knowledge. Generating keys for the client (your Mac) client: user$ mkdir /.ssh # if it doesn't exist client: user$ chmod 700 /.ssh client: user$ ssh-keygen -q -f /.ssh/idrsa -t rsa Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: This will generate a public/private key pair. MacOS is based on the Unix operating system and on technologies developed between 1985 and 1997 at NeXT, a company that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs created after leaving Apple in 1985. The 'X' in Mac OS X and OS X is the Roman numeral for the number 10 and is pronounced as such. Generating a key pair provides you with two long string of characters: a public and a private key. The public key will be added to your node. The corresponding private key pair will be saved on your local PC.

The process requires generating a public and private key on the local computer and then adding the public key to the remote servers authorised list. What is great about this is that it allows a password prompt free session, handy for a lot of uses.

First thing that you need to do on your macOS machine is to create a directory that will store your SSH keys. Then you will generate a public and private key for your account, launch the Terminal and punch in some commands:

Create a .ssh Directory

Change to the home directory

Create a SSH directory name .ssh and move into it

Make sure that the file permissions are set to read/write/execute only for the user

Create your private and public key, the blank quotes at the end of the command gives the private key no password, so allowing for passwordless logins!

Change into the .ssh directory and list the contents of that .ssh directory

Thats your SSH keys created, the private key is the id_rsa and the public one is the id_rsa.pub, don’t give out the private one always keep that one only on your local machine.

Sharing the Public Key

Create an authorized_keys in the .ssh directory of the remote computer that you want to connect to.

You can create automatic logins by adding the contents of your public key to the authorized_keys file on the remote device.

To see and copy your public key use the cat command and copy the contents:

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On the remote computer if needed, change the permssions on the authorized_keys file to write to add the public key, on a new line paste in your public key, and change permissions back to read only after for security.

Allow write on authorised_keys

Paste the entire id_rsa.pub content with vi or nano into the authorized_keys file, if using nano use the -w flag to not use incorrect line breaks.

If the remote host does not have an “authorized_keys” file simply create one and after the public key is pasted in don’t forget to takeaway write permissions.

Going Both Ways

So now when you connect via SSH no password is prompted as the remote computer has your public key which is only decrypted by your private key held in your local .ssh/ directory. If you want the communications to be bilateral then repeat the process in the opposite order between the two.

Now the two computers can securely connect with no password prompting, making it ideal to script between the two for file copies or back ups.

Doing it Quicker

Now instead of typing in

Make an alias in your bash shell you could alias it to

Reload the the shell

Then all you have to type in is the alias

Create both asymmetric and symmetric cryptographic keys.

Overview

Very often, you retrieve a key from an identity, a certificate, or the keychain, or with some other method described in Getting an Existing Key. Sometimes, however, you need to create your own keys.

Creating an Asymmetric Key Pair

An asymmetric cryptographic key pair is composed of a public and a private key that are generated together. You distribute the public key freely, but you keep the private key secret. One or both may be stored in a keychain for safekeeping.

You create an asymmetric key pair by first creating an attributes dictionary:

At a minimum, you specify the type and size of keys to create using the kSecAttrKeyType and kSecAttrKeySizeInBits parameters, respectively. The above example indicates 2048-bit RSA keys, though other options are available.

You then optionally add a kSecPrivateKeyAttrs parameter with a subdictionary that characterizes the private key. By assigning a value of true to the private key’s kSecAttrIsPermanent attribute, you store it in the default keychain while creating it. You also specify the kSecAttrApplicationTag attribute with a unique NSData value so that you can find and retrieve it from the keychain later. The tag data is constructed from a string, using reverse DNS notation, though any unique tag will do.

You could add a kSecPublicKeyAttrs attribute to the attributes dictionary, specifying a distinct tag and keychain storage for the public key. However, it’s typically easier to store only the private key and then generate the public key from it when needed. That way you don’t need to keep track of another tag or clutter your keychain.

For a complete list of available key attributes, see Key Generation Attributes.

Note

Be sure that you don’t generate multiple, identically tagged keys. These are difficult to tell apart during retrieval, unless they differ in some other, searchable characteristic. Instead, use a unique tag for each key generation operation, or delete old keys with a given tag using SecItemDelete(_:) before creating a new one with that tag.

You then call the SecKeyCreateRandomKey(_:_:) function with the attributes dictionary:

If the function fails to create a key, as indicated by a NULL return value, it fills in the error parameter to indicate the reason for failure. Otherwise, the key reference points to a new private key that’s ready for use. The key is also stored in the default keychain, from where you can read it later, as described in Storing Keys in the Keychain. If you need the corresponding public key (now or later), call the SecKeyCopyPublicKey(_:) function with the private key reference:

In Objective-C, when you’re done with these key references, however you obtained them, you are responsible for releasing the associated memory:

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Creating a Symmetric Key

Asymmetric key cryptography is useful because it enables secure communication between two players who don’t share a secret ahead of time. However, it’s not ideal for bulk data transfer, because it’s computationally expensive and because it operates on small, fixed-sized chunks of data. Symmetric key cryptography, on the other hand, is computationally efficient. It allows you to handle data streams of arbitrary length but requires that both sender and receiver, and no one else, know the secret key.

To get the best of both worlds, you often use asymmetric cryptography to communicate a symmetric cryptographic key that you then use for bulk data transfer. When you do this with the certificate, key, and trust services API, you don’t explicitly create the symmetric key yourself. Instead, you call SecKeyCreateEncryptedData(_:_:_:_:) to create a symmetric key for you. This function creates the symmetric key, uses it to encrypt your data, and then encrypts the key itself with the public key that you provide. It then packages all of this data together and returns it to you. You then transmit it to a receiver, who uses the corresponding private key in a call to SecKeyCreateDecryptedData(_:_:_:_:) to reverse the operation. For more details, see Using Keys for Encryption.

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See Also

Create an extra layer of security for your private keys.

Gets the public key associated with the given private key.

Mac Os Public Key Generation 2017

Mac Os Public Key Generation 2017

Use attribute dictionary keys during cryptographic key generation.