Thanks to all. I've resolved my first problem, load the PEM from a string.
I've used BIO_new_mem_buf() and PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey().
But now I've seen that it works well with PEM keys, and now I'm trying
to use a DER key, again from a string. Is there something like
DER_read_bio_PrivateKey()?
2010/10/27 Dr. Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org>:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010, Leandro Santiago wrote:
>
>> Ok. I've found the implementation of that function:
>>
>> EVP_PKEY *PEM_read_PrivateKey(FILE *fp, EVP_PKEY **x, pem_password_cb
>> *cb, void *u)
>> {
>> BIO *b;
>> EVP_PKEY *ret;
>>
>> if ((b=BIO_new(BIO_s_file())) == NULL)
>> {
>> PEMerr(PEM_F_PEM_READ_PRIVATEKEY,ERR_R_BUF_LIB);
>> return(0);
>> }
>> BIO_set_fp(b,fp,BIO_NOCLOSE);
>> ret=PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey(b,x,cb,u);
>> BIO_free(b);
>> return(ret);
>> }
>>
>> So if I need to implement a function which opens a char string as a
>> key I need to write something as the code above, but changing the
>> functions BIO_s_file() and BIO_set_fp(b,fp,BIO_NOCLOSE) to something
>> which load from that string instead from a FILE*?
>>
>> ps: yes, I'm very noob on openssl. OpenSSL is amazing, but it's very
>> hard to beginners. thx
>>
>
> As others have indicated you can use PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey() instead as
> this can be passed a BIO which is an OpenSSL I/O abstraction. You can create a
> BIO from a character string using BIO_new_mem_buf().
>
> Steve.
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