Re: Importing a public key

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 12/09/2012 03:11 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a public key produced by ‘openssl rsa -in key.sec -pubout > key.pub’,
>> which looks like this:
>> 
>> -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
>> MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAtnCdEo5fdYC/mjJLxjDK
>> J/COk6ItJmY0x2Tvgg0o28/RZSkSa8OrbZTE5YEZVq3o5Nj26aPJZeF916reV8kc
>> e+84/DNjP8HNGyZjnbxYgwSkDYYp15m0s+6Xt0j4dRqy+SMYxCqfg8AEhjgo1KWI
>> /m2ThBfvlBZvwhmMZBJRO2LM7l1G6c5k4TDNaNjjzCYk/kA83xxmh06aX7HUtrA0
>> LZU4wQr8OORAYDz17MY6Ls463kpCm8Yofcs6C8N90vXha3SCbjF6HyJ0mWFiGYAb
>> S0sT1aqJqFIEeZEsrE1M5XTRaNN58sufQGnVqPM5ZZG8O/TPST5UmXP4uFrJ8ZYe
>> qwIDAQAB
>> -----END PUBLIC KEY-----

[...]

>  This looks like a PKCS #8 key so you may want to try the pkcs8
> functions. If you have a recent gnutls version you may try
> gnutls_x509_privkey_import2() which tries several formats.

Given that the above is a public key (or X.509 “certificate”?), isn’t
‘gnutls_x509_crt_import’ supposed to be able to import it?  How does it
differ from ‘gnutls_pcert_import_x509_raw’?

Thanks,
Ludo’.