> Perhaps it predates the more general pemdecode and asn12rsa. > That pipeline should answer the original poster (Lucio?)'s > question about its implementation.
That's my diagnosis, too. I was looking for PEM implementations and that one stood out as a very lonesome, abandoned item :-) If no sources can be tracked down, then I guess it should simply be dispensed with. In passing, it will probably take me a lifetime, but I'm working on a full PEM and S/MIME library/implementation/whatever. What slows me down even further than is my natural habit was looking at OpenSSL for guidelines (a whole lot of DES alternatives that I can't find elsewhere). The stuff needs rototilling in a massive way. Like, Eric Young's (or is it Sun Microsystems's?) des(1) includes uu(en|de)code code in the base program :-( I guess it helps that occasionally I come across uuencoded data, but it adds to the programming overheads. ++L
