> Hi all,
>
> How to extract the public key from the certificate?

        1) Read in the certificate.
        2) Extract the public key.

> I have a question on the function: PEM_read_RSA_PUBKEY and
> PEM_read_bio_RSA_PUBKEY.
>
> The argument to these function is FILE *fp and BIO *bp respectively.
>
> Does this argument contain a X509 certificate? This I ask, since
> the public
> key is present in the certificate, and I want to extract the
> public key from
> the cert.

        No, these functions read in a public key, which you don't have. You want
functions like 'PEM_read_bio_X509' followed by 'X509_get_pubkey'.

        DS


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