Hi Dan:
Dan Ribe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to read the private key from the memory buffer (code snippet
> below), But PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey() always returns an error : OpenSSL
> error: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line
>
> Can anyone please point out what I am doing wrong here. I am pretty new to
> OpenSSL, so please excuse me if i have messed up the things !
>
> Code Snippet :
>
> char *key = "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----"
> "jGK1T++C+Np4As+KoaO2NCiCBN5UQJRzXBsZvLDoN6IcfxJwXklp560jrKiIZ8VU"
> "N2AZVq28yjqt3RYaRPn0xhbmLfWH/o+wzlg58wIDAQABAoIBAAHEep7qWWMFWsbc"
>
> ..............................................................................
>
I think that you need \n characters at each "end of line". Otherwise,
you just have one long string, and the PEM_read functions don't
recognise that.
Patrick.
> ..............................................................................
>
>
> "DwiD1OKnxTlAvZPkTSCS+QKBgDkXMM+2jyeRPwpUEyZjqYveVb5zc3HJMMGbpI/p"
> "09dirkd+sRoXWShF8ctVVb4B1PAFTOBEa8diickehnAyEq6KhzLWpQqhqCnylETw"
> "Drys2uVaAzmRhS6tGJ2fdwPnlSLJrQbHuP938BkyxNhdYN8drfqb"
> "-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----";
>
> int keyLength = strlen(key);
> BIO *bio = BIO_new_mem_buf(key, keyLength);
>
> EVP_PKEY *pktmp = NULL;
> pktmp = PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey(bio, NULL, NULL, NULL);
>
> if (pktmp == NULL) {
> char buffer[120];
>
> ERR_error_string(ERR_get_error(), buffer);
> fprintf(stderr, "OpenSSL error: %s", buffer);
> }
>
> Thanks much for Help
> Cheers !
>
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