Re: [Botan-devel] Read Private RSA key

[Jack L. <ll...@ac...>]

The problems is that by default OpenSSL will create keys in it's own
undocumented format. That is why the decoding fails - the private key isn't
PKCS #8 at all. The following sequence of commands will create a PKCS #8
private key with OpenSSL, encrypted with a passphrase of 'foo':

openssl genrsa | openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -passout pass:foo > pkcs8.pem

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Marcus Meyer wrote:

> Hello,
> I use Botan-1.2.6, I'll  open a Private-Key-PEM file (create with openssl).
> When read the file without change the folling Excepton is rise "PKCS #8:
> Unkown PEM label RSA PRIVATE KEY"
> then I change the start und end line to ----BEGIN|END PRIVATE KEY--- and
> then i have the folling Exception
> "PKCS #8 private key decoding failed"
>
> her ist es sample key ( is not my key )
> -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
> MIICXgIBAAKBgQDRT/S9lJXfkDlpHZbyeaYsI48xB0PDYx+F4oo9NxVR+Wny0leW
> QI+EV6p0Mv6Ypfqhq7U+uU4gMPTBhA62LniyfVPWoe3WWZbS7/+JYUB4zC9meHxh
> jUSoNtuYm44wIqO5PMRqiz51OTzKXuWKcwfsLTVdyvL+SkqhPoTkTr1h8QIDAQAB
> AoGBAJH520vkNmoGYaOnmUBeCsA5xIGC+YVoufFbvuFWay4SbguFGsSVHgJESYJk
> lh7LkvHxmKO4BH565heYC9KOsmk09KNQI06cAX7PSge39z44BAFqRp4Sjs+ikYH1
> hoUFl0M+PrTWP4MSWOqOYsrJICBelZVjaONU02a1mSNm6dwBAkEA+4NMMB780fdc
> u5c89zyHybeXwsen2jT1FsAAaSuqqFIuqqWDPJpTgkjQDsdms/wat0iaMDWvbuTz
> ldNzEwWPkQJBANUL69eE2ytLkK6ScjLXCuyRF/gwmHH72T/ZEuukL0QwT7fTuH0S
> VHMOvt4hKFnMDx+z/go1l16OwkD/LcY8PGECQQDUiXZXb8grUkINz9bYAlGo9zkK
> gxdnwLqf1+5A8YKMLK58y9Lj4nHRNeCDrKMwU0jsOzD4rlUqe9UPdhjXKSrRAkAx
> 0KPItQv6R6UA7MU/FgE754FPSy2aGWVnBH7kEnPq4dECDsNom0ybyqrejao9tPUk
> WJXiFT3bok3RnNk7LQKBAkEAvOIyHQpz/PwNr5eK6SXxpzGll+9lpNxkdMm+S5lN
> NRsMHWpCyMHjBkTphldx4jDngWrE08lDRqOVWqc72zOj9A==
> -----END PRIVATE KEY-----
>
> can anybody help?
>
>
>
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