Hi, I've been trying very, very hard to load an RSA key using M2Crypto but without any success.
basically this is what I'm trying to do: >>> from M2Crypto import BIO, RSA >>> >>> pubkey = """-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY----- ... MIIBCgKCAQEApwotnfHT9RAmxnuaGEMdI3lYPYE4aaqSD9v4KbTh1E7Le3GNJQb7 ... wCpmDe8+n8S5Kp/gBEpWiYuvsVA/T4KseoX7NMcacP+DJMwjmNd9U58USn2vLz0Z ... TMtXpc/FUhW5PZdgCiuNzw6IFgGn9ZCCv85jjUIW3KD8fUNdrUfVSv4olDoL9NkR ... dTRg3Os/znC6l0gv/mqnLaqj2bJ/tx47kUmj6Oq13JuEq34T+DVmsUCFVundQnRp ... c/vVEqQot7Rvj9UmSvTi4WKt/qxiAnyZf3gXOdrXvxfVTGzD5I/Xg+By+a4C2JwB ... A5RGvZP3fyfhkCnnhFDpfws5lc20FA6ryQIDAQAB ... -----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----""" >>> >>> bio = BIO.MemoryBuffer(pubkey.encode('ascii')) >>> RSA.load_pub_key_bio(bio) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/M2Crypto/RSA.py", line 422, in load_pub_key_bio rsa_error() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/M2Crypto/RSA.py", line 302, in rsa_error raise RSAError, m2.err_reason_error_string(m2.err_get_error()) M2Crypto.RSA.RSAError: no start line Reading all whats in Internet about this problem it seems that my key is in PKCS#1 format but M2Crypto only reads X.501 RSA keys. I know that python-crypto doesn't have any problem loading this key, but I'll prefer to stick with M2Crypto because I already have lots code using M2Crypto. So my question is, is there any way to load this key using M2Crypto? Can I convert somehow the key to X.501? I'll be very, very grateful if someone can come up with an interesting idea! thanks a lot!! Marc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list