[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | cannot generate RSA-OAEP key outside of FIPS mode with certtool (#1653)

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Daiki Ueno commented: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1653#note_2331596970


> `certtool --generate-privkey --key-type rsa-oaep --outfile oaep --p8` -\> same, raw RSA key

The `--p8` in this command line expands to `--p8-info`, as the abbreviation is [unique](https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Getopt-Long-Options.html), which doesn't change the key generation behavior.

The correct command line is:

`certtool --generate-privkey --key-type rsa-oaep --outfile oaep --pkcs8 --empty-password`

That said, that should be the default behavior; currently it's not because of a missing key type check in `switch_to_pkcs8_when_needed` in src/certtool-common.h.

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