On Tue October 26 2010, Leandro Santiago wrote:
> Sorry. I don't understand everything. Do you have any code example?
> I've tried to read the source code of these functions, but
> PEM_read_PrivateKey is a macro (and I hate read big macros) :-(
> 

gcc -E ... >output.txt
Is your answer to that complaint.

Mike
> 2010/10/26 Wim Lewis <w...@omnigroup.com>:
> > PEM_read_PrivateKey() is a wrapper around PEM_ASN1_read() (which reads an 
> > arbitrary ASN.1 object from a PEM-encoded blob) and d2i_PrivateKey() (which 
> > knows how to read a private key blob specifically).
> >
> > PEM_ASN1_read() simply creates a BIO from the FILE* that you give it, and 
> > calls PEM_ASN1_read_bio(). If you want, you can instead create a BIO from 
> > your string using something like BIO_new_mem_buf() and call 
> > PEM_ASN1_read_bio() yourself. (A BIO is an openssl object that's like a 
> > more general-purpose FILE*.)
> >
> > BTW, if your keys are stored in a database, there's probably no need for 
> > them to be PEM-encoded; you can save a bit of space and time by storing 
> > them in DER format and calling d2i_PrivateKey() directly. (PEM format is 
> > more or less just base64-encoded DER.) There's a FAQ entry on this:
> >    http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#PROG3
> >
> >
> >
> >
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