On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Aparna Nandyal wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for your response. But I have a file in which private key is
> available.
> 
> Smime -sign command prompts me for a pass word which I enter and internally
> private key is passed to pkcs7_sign () in EVP_PKEY without pass word. 
> 
> But I have a password protected private key in a file which I am not able to
> input to pkcs7_sign() directly. I also have the password in another file. So
> is there any function which takes password protected private key and
> password and return an EVP_PKEY without password?
> 

Depends on the file format. If its PEM (e.g. smime -sign works with it) then
PEM_read_PrivateKey() will do the trick. Check out the pem manual page for
more details.

Steve.
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