diff --git a/basic_ap.py b/basic_ap.py
index a1f9630..8bba84e 100644
--- a/basic_ap.py
+++ b/basic_ap.py
@@ -50,20 +50,7 @@ requests_log.propagate = True
 DOMAIN = 'https://my-example.com'
 USERNAME = 'alice'
 
-def public_key():
-    """
-    Use commandline openssl to generate a public and private key
-    """
-    if not os.path.exists('public.pem'):
-        os.system('openssl genrsa -out private.pem 2048')
-        os.system('openssl rsa -in private.pem -outform PEM -pubout -out public.pem')
-    else:
-        public_key = open('public.pem').read() 
-        public_key = public_key.replace('\n','\\n') #public key shouldn't contain verbatim linebreaks in json
-        return public_key
-
-key = get_key(f'{DOMAIN}/users/{USERNAME}') #generate public_key on first launch
-
+key = get_key(f'{DOMAIN}/users/{USERNAME}') #generate keypair on first launch
 
 #Flask
 app = flask.Flask(__name__)
@@ -114,7 +101,6 @@ def post():
     activity=json.loads(flask.render_template('create.json',
         domain=DOMAIN, actor=USERNAME))
     
-
     http_sig = HTTPSigAuth(key, headers)
 
     url = 'https://post.lurk.org/inbox'
@@ -122,9 +108,7 @@ def post():
     body = json.dumps(activity)
 
     headers = http_sig.sign(url,body)
-
-    #signed_headers = sign_header('private.pem', DOMAIN+'/users/'+USERNAME+'#main-key','https://post.lurk.org', json.dumps(json_message))
-
+    
     r = requests.post(url, json=body, headers=headers)
 
     html = f'Status code <pre>{r.status_code}</pre></br>Response Headers: <pre>{r.headers}</pre></br></br> json message: <pre>{r.request.body}</pre></br></br> Request headers: <pre>{r.request.headers}</pre>'