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Re: ASN1 (DER) key does not work

From: Seshubabu Pasam <pasam_at_seshubabu.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:03:49 -0700

This might be a OpenSSL doc bug. They do have another function that
supports ASN1 (DER) format along with PEM. I can try out the other
function and see if it works.

-Seshubabu Pasam

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Seshubabu Pasam wrote:
>
>
>>>That certainly makes it sound like it supports ASN1.
>>
>>That code snippet was from openssl-0.9.7c. I downloaded the latest
>>(openssl-0.9.7d) and checked the function again. It does not support ASN1,
>>which means curl can only support PEM formatted private key, as long as it
>>uses this function.
>>
>>OpenSSL man page is certainly mis-leading in this case.
>
>
> Isn't this an OpenSSL bug then?
>
Received on 2004-04-19