Teach rootd to generate manifests

svn path=/rpkid/rootd.py; revision=1912

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/rpkid/rpki/x509.py b/rpkid/rpki/x509.py
index e31760de..dd11e9b9 100644
--- a/rpkid/rpki/x509.py
+++ b/rpkid/rpki/x509.py
@@ -527,10 +527,10 @@ class RSA(DER_object):
       self.tlslite = tlslite.api.parsePEMKey(self.get_PEM(), private=True)
     return self.tlslite
 
-  def generate(self, keylength = 2048):
+  @classmethod
+  def generate(cls, keylength = 2048):
     """Generate a new keypair."""
-    self.clear()
-    self.set(POW = POW.Asymmetric(POW.RSA_CIPHER, keylength))
+    return cls(POW = POW.Asymmetric(POW.RSA_CIPHER, keylength))
 
   def get_public_DER(self):
     """Get the DER encoding of the public key from this keypair."""