Awesome, that worked. Is there a "official" name for the asn.1 structure that's
being produced here?
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From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] on
behalf of Viktor Dukhovni [openssl-us...@dukhovni.org]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 12:21 PM
To: openssl-users@openssl.org
Subject: Re: Problems reading PKCS8 private key
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 05:10:03PM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:13:02PM +0000, Ken Allen wrote:
>
> > Hi All, I'm having a bit of a problem. I need to load a private
> > key (EC, but I'm having the same problem with RSA) from an unecrypted,
> > der encoded, PKCS8 memory buffer. I'm just trying to get it to work
> > loading from a file for now and it's simply not working. Can someone
> > tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> If it is not encrypted, it is not really PKCS8, at least in the sense
> that it is a different ASN.1 data structure, the code that works is:
>
> - EVP_PKEY *key = d2i_PKCS8PrivateKey_fp(f, NULL, NULL, NULL);
> + EVP_PKEY *key = d2i_PrivateKey_fp(f, NULL);
I should perhaps mention that this is with OpenSSL 1.0 or later, which
the OP is probably using given that he's using EC keys.
In OpenSSL 0.9.8 d2i_PrivateKey_fp expects an RSA key.
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Viktor.
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