diff --git a/server/biz/KeyFactory.cs b/server/biz/KeyFactory.cs
index 3c77dcc..c3aae91 100644
--- a/server/biz/KeyFactory.cs
+++ b/server/biz/KeyFactory.cs
@@ -649,7 +649,71 @@ HOW TO INSTALL YOUR LICENSE KEY
 
         #endregion templates
 
+        #region key signing test harness function
 
+        internal static string Sign(string keyText)
+        {
+
+            // StringBuilder sbKey = new StringBuilder();
+            // StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sbKey);
+            //GET JSON as a string with whitespace stripped outside of delimited strings
+            //http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8913138/minify-indented-json-string-in-net
+            string keyNoWS = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(keyText, "(\"(?:[^\"\\\\]|\\\\.)*\")|\\s+", "$1");
+
+
+            //**** Note this is our real 2016 private key
+            var privatePEM = @"-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
+MIIEpAIBAAKCAQEAz7wrvLDcKVMZ31HFGBnLWL08IodYIV5VJkKy1Z0n2snprhSi
+u3izxTyz+SLpftvKHJpky027ii7l/pL9Bo3JcjU5rKrxXavnE7TuYPjXn16dNLd0
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+oArP0E2Vbow3JMxq/oeXmHbrLMLQfYyXwFmciLFigOtkd45bfHdrbA==
+-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----";
+
+            PemReader pr = new PemReader(new StringReader(privatePEM));
+            AsymmetricCipherKeyPair keys = (AsymmetricCipherKeyPair)pr.ReadObject();
+            var encoder = new UTF8Encoding(false, true);
+            var inputData = encoder.GetBytes(keyNoWS);
+            var signer = SignerUtilities.GetSigner("SHA256WITHRSA");
+            signer.Init(true, keys.Private);
+            signer.BlockUpdate(inputData, 0, inputData.Length);
+            var sign = signer.GenerateSignature();
+            var signature = Convert.ToBase64String(sign);
+
+
+            System.Text.StringBuilder sbOut = new StringBuilder();
+            sbOut.AppendLine("[KEY");
+            sbOut.AppendLine(keyText);
+            sbOut.AppendLine("KEY]");
+            sbOut.AppendLine("[SIGNATURE");
+            sbOut.AppendLine(signature);
+            sbOut.AppendLine("SIGNATURE]");
+
+            return sbOut.ToString();
+
+
+        }
+        #endregion
 
 
         //eoc
diff --git a/server/biz/RavenKeyFactory.cs b/server/biz/RavenKeyFactory.cs
index 5d9e568..cde31ad 100644
--- a/server/biz/RavenKeyFactory.cs
+++ b/server/biz/RavenKeyFactory.cs
@@ -206,6 +206,73 @@ oArP0E2Vbow3JMxq/oeXmHbrLMLQfYyXwFmciLFigOtkd45bfHdrbA==
         }
 
 
+  #region key signing test harness function
+
+        internal static string Sign(string keyText)
+        {
+
+            // StringBuilder sbKey = new StringBuilder();
+            // StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sbKey);
+            //GET JSON as a string with whitespace stripped outside of delimited strings
+            //http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8913138/minify-indented-json-string-in-net
+            string keyNoWS = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(keyText, "(\"(?:[^\"\\\\]|\\\\.)*\")|\\s+", "$1");
+
+
+            //**** Note this is our real 2016 private key
+            var privatePEM = @"-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
+MIIEpAIBAAKCAQEAz7wrvLDcKVMZ31HFGBnLWL08IodYIV5VJkKy1Z0n2snprhSi
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+oArP0E2Vbow3JMxq/oeXmHbrLMLQfYyXwFmciLFigOtkd45bfHdrbA==
+-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----";
+
+            PemReader pr = new PemReader(new StringReader(privatePEM));
+            AsymmetricCipherKeyPair keys = (AsymmetricCipherKeyPair)pr.ReadObject();
+            var encoder = new UTF8Encoding(false, true);
+            var inputData = encoder.GetBytes(keyNoWS);
+            var signer = SignerUtilities.GetSigner("SHA256WITHRSA");
+            signer.Init(true, keys.Private);
+            signer.BlockUpdate(inputData, 0, inputData.Length);
+            var sign = signer.GenerateSignature();
+            var signature = Convert.ToBase64String(sign);
+
+
+            System.Text.StringBuilder sbOut = new StringBuilder();
+            sbOut.AppendLine("[KEY");
+            sbOut.AppendLine(keyText);
+            sbOut.AppendLine("KEY]");
+            sbOut.AppendLine("[SIGNATURE");
+            sbOut.AppendLine(signature);
+            sbOut.AppendLine("SIGNATURE]");
+
+            return sbOut.ToString();
+
+
+        }
+        #endregion
+
+
         #region old stuff
         #region license classes