Cory Winter wrote:
>
> openssl pkcs8 -inform PEM -outform DER -in mykey.pem -out mykey.der -topk8
> - convert PEM cert to DER
First thing to note: this will create a key encrypted with 56 bit DES
which may be considered inadequate for some applications.
> I then try to use these DER certs with my C++ and Java apps. The
> Java app seems to work fine, however the C++ app can't seem to
> read in the pkcs8 DER private key information. Is this possible?
> Does anyone have an example code bit to offer on how to do this?
>
What calls are you using to read the PKCS#8 DER information and what
error do you get?
Currently its a bit messy reading in a DER encoded PKCS#8 structure but
the PEM version is handled transparently with PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey().
I'll add a prettier function that handles DER format for 0.9.5.
Steve.
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