> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Viktor Dukhovni > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 08:42
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 07:26:05PM -0700, Liz Fall wrote: > > > I have checked and verified that there is no whitespace. Also, the BEGIN > > and END statements look correct. However, each line in the cert is 76 > chars > > in length, except for the last line. Should the lines be 64-characters > > long? > > Yes. The OpenSSL base64 decoder limits input lines to 64 characters. > Nope. The encoder writes 64 (the original PEM spec), but the decoder will accept up to 76 (the less-old MIME spec). As one case I hit often, Java keytool -exportcert writes 76 and openssl reads it just fine. And the error here is "no start line". *On Windows* that often occurs when Windows editors treat text files as Unicode/UTF-8 with an invisible "BOM" (Byte Order Mark) at the beginning of the first line. Try prepending a semantically-meaningless comment line like: Hello! This is my Key!! Rah Rah Go Key Go!! -----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY----- MHcCAQEEIAqD7NQvpg74v7Pik4rAIfk/BIQlQa1fbM9BKkHOkKJBoAoGCCqGSM49 AwEHoUQDQgAE/BR1oMSfz4WgklW7t83E0xClrBh0md1Ata8rsPq8VAsB1WDXPXwk T7WbcXlsyxuyOb7ok8F544xmr+pKreWbHw== -----END EC PRIVATE KEY----- ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
