Robert Relyea wrote: > Dave Townsend wrote: >> Anyway basic issue is that I need a SECKEYPublicKey and >> SECKEYPrivateKey. I can see how to create them in NSS for use, I've >> also found a technical note which suggests how to bring a public key >> into NSS, however I don't see anything about serializing/restoring a >> private key or how to get a created public key out of NSS. Can anyone >> point me in the right direction? >> > Hi david, > > You have 2 options when extracting the public key. > > The first option is the preferred option : > SECKEY_EncodeDERSubjectPublicKeyInfo() It takes a public key and returns > a SECitem which is a DER encoded blob that represents that public key, > including the public key type. You an reimport such a blob with > SECKEY_DecodeDERSubjectPublicKeyInfo() and SECKEY_ExtractPublicKey();
Excellent I think this is just what I needed. Tell me is the form that this comes out in standardised in any way or is it something that is NSS specific? Dave _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
