Manage your private and public key - deprecated

Storing your public key within our solution store will help to authenticate your things-client based solutions.

note Please note that the things-client and the public key authentication are deprecated.
Please use OAuth for authenticating your client instead. Find details at Authenticate as a technical client.

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For setting a public key, our procedure assumes that you have generated yourself a pair of public and private key. The data of the public key file (in PKCS#8 format or a X.509 certificate) will need to be Base64 encoded.

EC stands for the EC-DSA algorithm and is the only key type supported.

Generate a pair of private and public keys

The following steps use the Java keytool to do this (see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/unix/keytool.html). Java keytool does not need to be downloaded explicitly as it is part of an average JDK. Find the official documentation at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/unix/keytool.html).

Use this command to generate your key pair

keytool -genkeypair -noprompt -dname "CN=-, OU=-, O=-, L=-, S=-, C=-" -keyalg EC -alias things -sigalg SHA512withECDSA -validity 365 -keystore C:\temp\things-client.jks

Provide a password of your choice and confirm it. Optionally you can provide a separate second password for the key itself.

Use the following two commands to get a text representation of a certificate containing your public key.

keytool -export -keystore C:\temp\things-client.jks -alias things -rfc -file C:\temp\things-client_key.cer

and

keytool -printcert -rfc -file C:\temp\things-client_key.cer

create public key

Submit the public key

Copy the text representation including -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- down to -----END CERTIFICATE----- into the clipboard for the public key of your solution and click “Submit public key”.
A success message should appear.

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If you refresh the page, the success message for submitting the key will disappear, but the key will remain stored until you overwrite it with a new one.

tip Keep the keystore with your private key as well as the passwords safe.
You will need them later, when using our things-client for Java.