Making RSA keys from a password in python

Question

I want to be able to generate and re-generate the same RSA keys from a password (and salt) alone in python.

Currently I was doing it using pycrypto, however, it does not seem to generate the same exact keys from the password alone. The reason seems to be that when pycrypto generates a RSA key it uses some sort of random number internally.

Currently my code looks as follows:

import DarkCloudCryptoLib as dcCryptoLib #some costume library for crypto
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA

password = "password"


new_key1 = RSA.generate(1024) #rsaObj
exportedKey1 = new_key1.exportKey('DER', password, pkcs=1)
key1 = RSA.importKey(exportedKey1)

new_key2 = RSA.generate(1024) #rsaObj
exportedKey2 = new_key2.exportKey('DER', password, pkcs=1)
key2 = RSA.importKey(exportedKey2)
print dcCryptoLib.equalRSAKeys(key1, key2) #wish to return True but it doesn't

I don't really care if I have to not use pycrypto, as long as I can generate these RSA keys from passwords and salts alone.

Thanks for the help in advance.

Just for reference, this is how dcCryptoLib.equalRSAKeys(key1, key2) function looks like:

def equalRSAKeys(rsaKey1, rsaKey2):
    public_key = rsaKey1.publickey().exportKey("DER") 
    private_key = rsaKey1.exportKey("DER") 
    pub_new_key = rsaKey2.publickey().exportKey("DER")
    pri_new_key = rsaKey2.exportKey("DER")
    boolprivate = (private_key == pri_new_key)
    boolpublic = (public_key == pub_new_key)
    return (boolprivate and boolpublic)

NOTE: Also, I am only using RSA for authentication. So any solution that provides a way of generating secure asymmetric signatures/verifying generated from passwords are acceptable solutions for my application. Though, generating RSA keys from passwords I feel, is a question that should also be answered as it seems useful if used correctly.

Making RSA keys from a password in python

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