Bill Rebey wrote:
> 
> In an effort to read a DER key, I have discovered that support for this
> feature appears to be missing from OpenSSL.
> 
> Am I missing someting or misusing the API?  I thought DER and PEM were both
> supported.  Any help woould be appreciated.
> 
> >From ssl_rsa.c, here is SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file (...), which apparently
> only supports PEM files.
> 

Its not easy to work out what kind of key (encrypted, unencrypted,
PKCS#8 etc) is in a DER file so this isn't currently handled. You can
use the normal OpenSSL DER routines and get the key in an EVP_PKEY
structure and pass that to the SSL library.

Steve.
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