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reading private key file
From: |
Rainer Gerhards |
Subject: |
reading private key file |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:24:52 +0100 |
Hi all,
I am banging my head for quite some while now and hope to find some
help here. I am unable to read a private key that I have generated
with certtool.
I do this
$ certtool --generate-privkey --outfile test.key
then I call my (test) program and make it try to read/import test.key
via these statements:
data.size = fread (buffer, 1, sizeof (buffer) - 1, infile);
buffer[data.size] = 0;
data.data = buffer;
r = gnutls_x509_privkey_init(&key);
r = gnutls_x509_privkey_import(key, &data, GNUTLS_X509_FMT_PEM);
if(1){//r == GNUTLS_E_BASE64_UNEXPECTED_HEADER_ERROR) {
fprintf(stderr, "gnutls error %d in privkey_import1: %s\n",
r, gnutls_strerror(r));
/* as a non-interactive process, we do not try with password */
r = gnutls_x509_privkey_import_pkcs8 (key, &data,
GNUTLS_X509_FMT_PEM,
NULL, GNUTLS_PKCS_PLAIN);
}
if(r != GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS) {
fprintf(stderr, "gnutls error %d in privkey_import: %s\n",
r, gnutls_strerror(r));
exit(1);
}
This results in these errors:
gnutls error -69 in privkey_import1: ASN1 parser: Error in DER parsing.
gnutls error -207 in privkey_import: Base64 unexpected header error.
Interestingly, I can read the key file without any problems via
openSSL's PEM_read_RSAPrivateKey(). I guess I am doing something
pretty basic wrong, but what?
Help would be deeply appreciated.
Thanks,
Rainer
- reading private key file,
Rainer Gerhards <=