SAMPLE RSA Private Key — PKCS#1, Encrypted (DEK-Info)
The legacy encrypted-key layout: PKCS#1 body plus `Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED` and `DEK-Info` PEM headers carrying the cipher and IV, password `novus-p7-sample-pkcs1`. Parsers that strip PEM headers before decoding silently lose the IV and fail here.
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-256-CBC,D0018AC3F986715FF8DE788EA4F88581
CiO7dbG7S9lOU4kyOhfI0pnSivEcwylD5z2tOo7izluPJCj44hUOwfL0QWA+ItfT
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-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Specifications
- Algorithm
- RSA
- Bits
- 2048
- Container
- PKCS#1 with PEM encryption headers
- Headers
- Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED and DEK-Info
- Password
- novus-p7-sample-pkcs1
- Encrypted
- true
- Pinned
- the DEK-Info IV is per-run random, so these bytes are pinned in the generator
- Sample Only
- true
- Seed
- 70117
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Load the key with password `novus-p7-sample-pkcs1` in the library under test.
- Expected result
- The Proc-Type/DEK-Info headers are honoured and the decrypted key matches the plain PKCS#1 twin.
What is a .key file?
A .key file holds a private key, usually PEM-encoded in PKCS#8 (BEGIN PRIVATE KEY) or a key-type-specific format. It is the secret half of a TLS or SSH identity and must normally be protected — the examples here are published, sample-only keys that must never be used in production.
How to use this file
Use an example .key to test PEM key parsers, PKCS#8 decoders, and key-format converters (for example PEM to DER or OpenSSH). These are deliberately published sample keys — for parser testing only, never for real use.
How to use this file for testing
“SAMPLE RSA Private Key — PKCS#1, Encrypted (DEK-Info)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Certificate & key testing, Error handling. Self-signed X.509 certificates (PEM, CRT, DER), a CSR, RSA and Ed25519 keys, an SSH public key, a PKCS#12 bundle, and an htpasswd file — all published sample-only material, for testing certificate parsers, TLS tooling, keystore importers, and PEM/DER decoders.
Documented properties for this file: seed 70117 · RSA. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
This is published, SAMPLE-only security material — never a real secret. Point certificate, key, or token parsers at it, test PEM/DER decoding and PKCS handling, and confirm your tooling reads the documented fields; any sample password is printed on this page.
This is a published, sample-only certificate/key. Parse it, verify the chain or signature, and test PEM↔DER conversion — never deploy it anywhere real.
Related files
- pemSAMPLE Certificate Revocation List — EmptyA correctly signed CRL with an absent revokedCertificates field — what a CA publishes when it has revoked nothing. Parsers that assume the list is always present tend to fault here rather than report zero entries.
- pemSAMPLE Certificate Revocation List — StaleA validly signed CRL whose nextUpdate passed in 2020. Whether a client hard-fails, soft-fails, or silently trusts stale revocation data is a real policy decision, and this is the fixture that reveals which one it made.
- csrSAMPLE CSR — Intentionally Corrupt Base64An intentionally corrupt PKCS#10 request: the PEM armour is intact but four illegal characters have been substituted into the Base64 body, so decoding fails part-way. It exists to check that a CSR intake path reports a parse error instead of a stack trace or a partially populated record.
- pemSAMPLE Leaf Certificate — ExpiredA correctly signed leaf whose notAfter fell in the past (2020). The only thing wrong with it is the clock, which makes it the clean way to assert that an expiry error is reported as expiry and not as a signature failure.
- pemSAMPLE Leaf Certificate — No SAN ExtensionA pre-RFC 6125-style certificate carrying only a Common Name and no subjectAltName extension. Every current browser and most TLS libraries reject it outright, which makes it a precise legacy-compatibility probe.
- pemSAMPLE Leaf Certificate — Not Yet ValidThe mirror of the expired leaf: identical in every respect except that notBefore is 2035, so it is rejected from the other side of the validity window. Pairs with it to prove a verifier distinguishes the two clock errors.
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