Hi Marcel,
On 08/03/2015 12:30 AM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> as you can clearly see. There are two formats defined here. There is no 
> single ASN.1 structure that can decode both of these.
> 
> It is what it is, RSA Public Key and RSA Private Key formats are two 
> different key formats. And OpenSSL also treats it like this. You can extract 
> the public key from a private key (same way you can extract it from a 
> certificate), but you can not create a private key structure that only 
> contains the public key.
> 
> For RSA we need to support the two formats as listed above. To make this 
> really easy from an API point of view, I would have setkey and setpubkey 
> function. And also expose them as ALG_SET_KEY and ALG_SET_PUBKEY socket 
> options for AF_ALG.

I'll have a look what will be the easiest way to get the openSSL generated & 
unmodified private key working.
Thanks,
T

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