However, the very idea behind making this change is to eliminate the
"unhygenic" practice of using private keys in the clear...
I don't see big difference between using private key in clear and private
key in pkcs8 file with no password or with "password" password. If someone
do not understand what is s/he doing then someone always find a way to screw up
him/herself :)

But if you insist....
I insist on keeping xmlsec backward compatible now. I don't know who use
and what kind of scripts are based on a fact that "--privkey-der" loads a clear
text private key. Changing the library/utility behaiviour w/o warning seems
wrong to me. And for me, the issue does not seem important enough to go
to xmlsec 2.0 :)

How do --privkey-der-pkcs8 and --privkey-pem-pkcs8 sound?.
What about simple "--pkcs8-pem" and "--pkcs8-der"? What else besides
private key could be there?

Aleksey




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