On Wed, Jun 27, 2007, Janet N wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a function in openssl that can convert a private key from a pkcs#8
> to pkcs#1?  I've done this with the command line and it works fine, just
> want to do this programmatically:
> 
> command line (want to do this using openssl function instead):
> openssl pkcs8 -inform PEM -nocrypt -in dsakey.pem -out new.pem

Well PEM_read_PrivateKey() will automatically handle multiple formats
including PKCS#8. If you write using PEM_write_PrivateKey() it will use
PKCS#1.

Steve.
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