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Update documentation for RSA key creation
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Expand Up @@ -32,8 +32,13 @@ In order to generate a RS[256, 384, 512] (RSA Signature with SHA-[256, 384, 512]
keys, execute the following:

```shell script
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f jwtRS256.key # don't add passphrase
openssl rsa -in jwtRS256.key -pubout -outform PEM -out jwtRS256.key.pub
# With ssh-keygen
ssh-keygen -t rsa -P "" -b 4096 -m PEM -f jwtRS256.key
ssh-keygen -e -m PEM -f jwtRS256.key > jwtRS256.key.pub
# or with openssl
openssl genpkey -algorithm RSA -pkeyopt rsa_keygen_bits:2048 -outform PEM -out jwtRS256.key
openssl rsa -pubout -in jwtRS256.key -out jwtRS256.key.pub
# Verify results
cat jwtRS256.key
cat jwtRS256.key.pub
```
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