On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:44:09AM -0800, adfm wrote: > First of all, > > Thanks for the replies, I know that answering some lame question can > seem like a waste of time but I really appreciate it. As you all > might have guessed I'm completely new to cryptography > > Now answering Vadim, > > What I did was grab the pfx certificate I was given, opened it, copied > the PEM encodig to a file and saved it.
private key required to decrypt or sign; public key is used to encrypt or verify a signature. no private key there in X.509 certificate, just a public one. PKCS-12 structure is a "container" that can hold the private key, as well a X.509 certificate > when I do a "openssl x509 -text -in myfile" it outputs everything it > should output, so there I know it's a "valid" (valid as in I can see > what is inside and it makes sense). would it show private key with "openssl pkcs12 ... pfx" ? > Well, all seems to be in order then, so... do I need to do some > intermediate step after loading the file and before trying to load the > private key? > > To Mark and Tin, thanks for your input I really appreciate it! > > Cheers to all > Andr? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Crypto++ Users" > Google Group. > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]. > More information about Crypto++ and this group is available at > http://www.cryptopp.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Crypto++ Users" Google Group. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]. More information about Crypto++ and this group is available at http://www.cryptopp.com.
