You can make openssl to read password from file: -passin file:something.txt
Should to the trick Regards, Grzegorz On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I've got problems to decrypt a PKCS8 encrypted private-key with the > openssl-application (not library), because the password is binary and > contains NULL-bytes (0x00). > The PKCS8-object is valid. > > sample-password: (hex) '0A 0B 91 00 17 F4 8E 4D FA BD 31 3D 72 43 ED A1' > > sample-cmd: > > passwd=cat 'binary_password_file.bin' (cat as example, also ussed > other ways) > > export passwd > > openssl pkcs8 -in filename.pkcs8 -inform DER -passin env:passwd > -outform DER > > (Using '-passin file:passwdfile' or '-passin stdin' causes problems with > 0x0A, cause these options read only the first line) > > Platforms: Windows and Unix and I prefer not to write a C-programm to > use openssl-library. > > > Can anyone help me to decrypt a pkcs8-encrypted rsa-key, using a > password, which contains NULL-Bytes ... please :)? > > thx > Fabian > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [email protected] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
