How to create central encryption keys

The procedure on how to create encryption keys differs from your operating system. Here you will find a short how-to for Windows users.

1.  Assuming that you are using Windows, it is necessary to install OpenSSL (in Linux systems is built-in).

2. After installing the program, run the file openssl.exe as administrator by right-clicking on it (exact location may vary in your PC, but it can be found in the folder OpenSSL-Win64/bin).

3. Use the command genpkey -out private.txt -algorithm RSA -pkeyopt rsa_keygen_bits:2048 to generate the private key and the command rsa -in private.txt -outform PEM -pubout -out public.txt to generate the public key:

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   The keys will appear as a text file in the bin folder:

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5. You can finally copy-paste them in your Jira home directory.