The PrivateKey structure includes both the private and the public parts. Once you read the private key, you don't need to separately load the public.
-Kyle H On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Vadim Lebedev<va...@mbdsys.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if somebody can enlighten me: > At Page 283 of "Network Security with OpenSSL" book there is example > of generation of certificate request. > > And there is a code sequence seems to be strange: > > We read a PRIVATE key from a file using PEM_READ_PrivateKey > > and than we add it as a PUBLIC Key to the request > > X509_REQ_Set_pubkey > > and later yet we use the same private key to sign the request... > > > I would think that we need to read a PUBLIC key from somewhere and use it as > public key for the requset > > > > > Tanks > Vadim > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
