It took me a long time to figure out that I was getting a BERDecodeErr when
loading a private key from a file because it had been encoded with
"->DEREncode()" and was getting decoded with "->BERDecodeKey()".
I have a couple of questions:
1. What is the difference between the two encodings? An in-line comment
(quoted below) suggests maybe the "EncodeKey()" variant is X509 spec?
2. A meta-issue: where will documentation which explains such issues
ultimately live? In richer in-line comments? In Denis Bider's tutorial? The
auto-FAQ? What's is your grand plan, Wei, for Crypto++ doc as Crypto++
becomes more widely used? (About which more in a separate message.)
Regards,
Zooko
------- begin excerpt from rsa.h:
// X509PublicKey
OID GetAlgorithmID() const;
void BERDecodeKey(BufferedTransformation &bt);
void DEREncodeKey(BufferedTransformation &bt) const;
------- end excerpt from rsa.h:
