Indeed. My search yielded: go get -u -v github.com/ianmcmahon/encoding_ssh
which had exactly what I needed (and should probably be included in the standard ssh package) The use case itself - a digital signature facility in our Over The Network software upgrade procedure. The following is a go rewrite of the tool (from my previous project) : https://github.com/RajaSrinivasan/disign.git thanks, srini On Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at 8:43:29 AM UTC-5, a2800276 wrote: > > >> looking for guidance on how to get an rsa.PublicKey from id_rsa.pub >> seems like I can parse the id_rsa.pub contents and get a ssh.PublicKey >> but how do I transform this into an rsa.PublicKey >> i need the coersion in order to use other support services. >> >> > Please consider whether this is really what you need to be doing. If > you're being provided with a id_rsa.pub file (presumably from a .ssh > configuration directory) you will very likely be performing ssh operations, > which are ideally left up to the ssh library to perform. > > If you have a very exotic usecase an know what you are doing, the ssh > package uses the crypto.rsa package internally to parse the ssh keyfiles, > so just have a look at the implementation there: > https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/ssh/keys.go#L262 > > Good Luck! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e1ab26d1-e5e6-44c3-9bda-4a2a20d5ec15%40googlegroups.com.
