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