On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Ivan Pau wrote:
> I am doing a project about security using the SSLeay but i have some
> troubles using the "d2i_RSAPublicKey" and "d2i_RSAPrivateKey" routines. I
> need to write the publicKey and the privateKey into a file, and i got it
> using "i2d_RSAPublicKey" and "i2d_RSAPrivateKey" routines. But if i read
> the keys from the file, i can not keep them in a RSA structure when i use
> the routines mentioned above.
Example code follows. I only load the values into a char array, writing to
a file is left as an excersise. There is also the option of writing them
base64 encoced.
eric
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#include <stdio.h>
#include "rsa.h"
/* This is a simple program to generate an RSA private key. It then
* saves both the public and private key into a char array, then
* re-reads them. It saves them as DER encoded binary data.
*/
void callback(stage,count,arg)
int stage,count;
char *arg;
{
FILE *out;
out=(FILE *)arg;
fprintf(out,"%d",stage);
if (stage == 3)
fprintf(out,"\n");
fflush(out);
}
main()
{
RSA *rsa,*pub_rsa,*priv_rsa;
int len;
unsigned char buf[1024],*p;
rsa=RSA_generate_key(512,RSA_F4,callback,(char *)stdout);
p=buf;
/* Save the public key into buffer, we know it will be big enough
* but we should really check how much space we need by calling the
* i2d functions with a NULL second parameter */
len=i2d_RSAPublicKey(rsa,&p);
len+=i2d_RSAPrivateKey(rsa,&p);
printf("The public and private key are now both in a char array\n");
printf("and are taking up %d bytes\n",len);
RSA_free(rsa);
p=buf;
pub_rsa=d2i_RSAPublicKey(NULL,&p,(long)len);
len-=(p-buf);
priv_rsa=d2i_RSAPrivateKey(NULL,&p,(long)len);
if ((pub_rsa == NULL) || (priv_rsa == NULL))
ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
RSA_free(pub_rsa);
RSA_free(priv_rsa);
}
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