I have a public key in the following format: ssh-dss AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAACBANp8I4YOSRlhoLGkHzRL1n0oOyrZUpJwxAv2nYgfeFtCxGT1V3S5yPchB/eQhOlh2qsRD9C85FFQPhIIoGhcFObQ8JApDhGC7Ry/9rU+kygRMvc5QwKR2nmGHb2S8NV8GwqAZXfYCM9IEwErS8BY+H0PGzJtBXw926fwz7YgJmZLAAAAFQCzrVxVqen0ZQ08EimzTtBimRvvAwAAAIBGqpPGAw9fUcBRMlAGSUMDRthh+vKg5HJx52rupinjpZrptdgSpJRTtQXebAbB0rWQgMh5o/sYZzpHurfFJVKzjdrpBFji2FnCsO5zThSuCn07oDHidr9JEgJ/lHwHB57JQX6f+PT2KK6/N7rw2kwF1+mZDgWbhjxA1AZC4KSUgQAAAIBT41q0iIYSRJD6rB7ywN9rXCVwNtcG/Y8U/Bqh1cc4lYb9R5hNcRSqAkgis0BFxpM3frzZKpgdyX/I7HScGpbiGUlBFf/sX3YnUFsfHHg+OnuVqYzlKL8iEfP+RTpeqnHV/AdWOUELVJzHqk7FD31Tf+IGbt25vI3FjEDkQWYpdg= =
that is, "ssh-dss " followed by a base64-encoded blob which has the following five values, each preceded by their length in bytes: *"ssh-dss" (again, this time no space) *the four integers that dss uses (p,q,g,y). This is the format outputted by: ssh-keygen -q -t dsa -f %s -C '' -N '' (actually, this is the command used by the Sugar environment for OLPC to make keys, I am trying to use these keys for signatures. Certainly this seems to be a pretty standard way to make a key). If I try openssl dgst -dss1 -verify ... with this key, I get the message "unable to load key file" Is there any way for me to convert this to a valid key format? If not, is it possible that openssl might/should gain the capability to read this format? I can even make an attempt to write this into openssl myself, but it has been some time since I wrote C and I would really appreciate some pointers from somebody who knows the code as to where I need to change it. Thanks, Jameson
