On Wed, Jun 23, 2010, Harshvir Sidhu wrote: > Hi All, > I am trying to read Certificates and Private Key from Windows > Certificate Store and then using them in OpenSSL. I am able to read > Certificates but i am having trouble with reading Private Key. Have anyone > done this before, any pointers will be great. Thanks. >
Depends on what you want to do with the key. If you want to use it for SSL/TLS client authentication then you can use the CryptoAPI ENGINE to pick an appropriate certficate and key and use them directly. You just have to set the SSL client authentication ENGINE to "capi". For other purposes you can load the private key from the capi ENGINE using ENGINE_load_private_key(). The string you pass by default is a substring of the certificate name e.g. if it has CN=steve then "steve" will do. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
