that is hex encoded and DER
On Mon, May 03, 2004, Eleanor Nagai wrote:
> Steven,
>
> Hi!
>
> Thanks very much for your response. I tried the -keyform option in the
dgst
> command but get the message "unable to load key file". So I tried your
> suggestion
>
On Mon, May 03, 2004, Eleanor Nagai wrote:
> Steven,
>
> Hi!
>
> Thanks very much for your response. I tried the -keyform option in the dgst
> command but get the message "unable to load key file". So I tried your
> suggestion
> to convert the key to pem format using:
>
> openssl
do is convert the public key, presumably in
hex, to base64?
Does this sound reasonable?
thanks again for your help,
e
-Original Message-
From: Steven Reddie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 10:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: loading an RSA pubkey th
Hi,
I think the term you were looking for was binary, meaning not a text file.
If by dgst you mean the openssl command line utility, try adding the
parameter "-keyform der". If that doesn't work you'll need to convert the
key to PEM (base64 encoding of the DER). The command "openssl rsa -inform
