reading private key file

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am banging my head for quite some while now and hope to find some
> help here. I am unable to read a private key that I have generated
> with certtool.
> I do this
>
> $ certtool  --generate-privkey --outfile test.key
> then I call my (test) program and make it try to read/import test.key
> via these statements:
>
>        data.size = fread (buffer, 1, sizeof (buffer) - 1, infile);
>        buffer[data.size] = 0;
>        data.data = buffer;
>        r = gnutls_x509_privkey_init(&key);

I don't know what is wrong with your program, but certtool uses the
same idea to load a key (see privkey_info()), so if certtool can read
the key so should you (unless you provide bad data, or you didn't call
gnutls_global_init()).provide to the function.

regards,
Nikos