Signing data using openssl with python

Question

I am currently signing data using next opensll command:

openssl dgst -sign key.pem -sha256 -out signature.sig data.txt

How can I achieve this with Python?

@BarunSharma I know it and thank you, but question in another how would I do it with a python functions, libraries? — Maxim Kravchenko
– Maxim Kravchenko, Commented Sep 11, 2015 at 9:17

Maxim Kravchenko · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-11 15:37:00Z

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I found answer here(http://nullege.com/ and https://pyopenssl.readthedocs.org/en/stable/api/crypto.html):

import OpenSSL
from OpenSSL import crypto
import base64
key_file = open("C:\my.pem", "r")
key = key_file.read()
key_file.close()
password = "password of prk"

if key.startswith('-----BEGIN '):
    pkey = crypto.load_privatekey(crypto.FILETYPE_PEM, key, password)
else:
    pkey = crypto.load_pkcs12(key, password).get_privatekey()
print pkey
data = "data"
sign = OpenSSL.crypto.sign(pkey, data, "sha256") 
print sign

data_base64 = base64.b64encode(sign)
print data_base64

answered Sep 11, 2015 at 15:37

Maxim Kravchenko

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István Siroki Over a year ago

to exactly match the openssl command in the question what you want to do is binary write the sign to signature.sig

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