Sorry. I don't understand everything. Do you have any code example? I've tried to read the source code of these functions, but PEM_read_PrivateKey is a macro (and I hate read big macros) :-(
2010/10/26 Wim Lewis <w...@omnigroup.com>: > PEM_read_PrivateKey() is a wrapper around PEM_ASN1_read() (which reads an > arbitrary ASN.1 object from a PEM-encoded blob) and d2i_PrivateKey() (which > knows how to read a private key blob specifically). > > PEM_ASN1_read() simply creates a BIO from the FILE* that you give it, and > calls PEM_ASN1_read_bio(). If you want, you can instead create a BIO from > your string using something like BIO_new_mem_buf() and call > PEM_ASN1_read_bio() yourself. (A BIO is an openssl object that's like a more > general-purpose FILE*.) > > BTW, if your keys are stored in a database, there's probably no need for them > to be PEM-encoded; you can save a bit of space and time by storing them in > DER format and calling d2i_PrivateKey() directly. (PEM format is more or less > just base64-encoded DER.) There's a FAQ entry on this: > http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#PROG3 > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
