This is true for TLS, but in general you can get OpenSSL to accept keys that are
in PKCS #1 format.

Best,
-Ekr


On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Hal Lockhart <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 3) A Standards Track document specifying how to encode public
>> keys as JSON-structured objects.
>>
>
> I would like to push back on the idea of only supporting naked public keys. 
> It is my understanding that common cryto libraries, e.g. OpenSSL, expect 
> public keys to be in certificates and the coding to get them to accept a 
> naked key as input is ugly. I don't think they care if the cert is self 
> signed or even signed at all, its just a format issue.
>
> Hal
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