I don't think key generation for RSA/Rabin is a minefield. There used to be a big list of precautions you were supposed to take, but the state of the art in factorization doesn't care about those precautions, so just separately generate two primes of approximately the right size and multiply them together.

FWIW if you have a free choice of public key primitive, RSA should never be your choice; Rabin strictly dominates it. For most applications I'd recommend ECC of some kind.