Ehsan Amiri wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I create a RSA key using "RSA_generate_key" and then
> public and private parts to two different files using
> this functions:
>
> PEM_write_bio_RSAPublicKey &
> PEM_write_bio_RSAPrivateKey
>
> but when I want to instantiate an "RSA *" by calling
> the function
>
> PEM_read_bio_RSA_PUBKEY
>
> to read public part from the file, the function
> returns NULL and I receive this error:
>
> error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line
>
> Can anyone help me resolving this problem?
>
They are different and incompatible formats, that's expected behaviour.
The RSA_PUBKEY variant may be preferable because it's more standard and
is extendible to non-RSA algorithms.
Steve.
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