On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org>wrote:

> PEM files however can contain multiple structures (more than one
> certificate,
> private key or CRL for example) and can contain additional human readable
> information outside the PEM headers. So you don't know the file doesn't
> contain the relevant structure until you hit EOF.
>

Ah, thanks for the explanations.  I was unaware of this, as I have never
seen PEM files with human-readable comments in them.  Hopefully that is not
too common in practice.

Phillip

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