Thank you for you quick response :). But passing in passwords with '-passin file:somthing.txt' causes problems with newlines in password. Openssl read only first line :( and that will trun the NULL-byte-problem to a NEWLINE-problem.
Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance :) Fabian > You can make openssl to read password from file: > > -passin file:something.txt > > Should to the trick > > Regards, > Grzegorz > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello >> >> I've got problems to decrypt a PKCS8 encrypted private-key with the >> openssl-application (not library), because the password is binary and >> contains NULL-bytes (0x00). >> The PKCS8-object is valid. >> >> sample-password: (hex) '0A 0B 91 00 17 F4 8E 4D FA BD 31 3D 72 43 ED A1' >> >> sample-cmd: >> > passwd=cat 'binary_password_file.bin' (cat as example, also ussed >> other ways) >> > export passwd >> > openssl pkcs8 -in filename.pkcs8 -inform DER -passin env:passwd >> -outform DER >> >> (Using '-passin file:passwdfile' or '-passin stdin' causes problems with >> 0x0A, cause these options read only the first line) >> >> Platforms: Windows and Unix and I prefer not to write a C-programm to >> use openssl-library. >> >> >> Can anyone help me to decrypt a pkcs8-encrypted rsa-key, using a >> password, which contains NULL-Bytes ... please :)? >> >> thx >> Fabian ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
