Importing a PKCS#1 RSAPublicKey structure into a gnutls_pubkey_t

[René Korthaus]

Am 09.08.2012 14:49, schrieb Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos:
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:11 AM, René Korthaus <r.korthaus at sirrix.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the clarification. Then is there a reason that gnutls offers no
>> method to import a PKCS#1 RSAPublicKey structure - given that it is a
>> standard format and almost all smartcards speak it plus RSAPublicKey is very
>> similar to RSAPrivateKey and gnutls can already decode RSAPrivateKey
>> structures with _gnutls_privkey_decode_pkcs1_rsa_key. From the code I've
>> seen it should be fairly easy to implement and would make us very happy. :)
> The problem is that RSAPublicKey structure is RSA specific. GnuTLS
> supports the generic SubjectPublicKeyInfo structure for public keys
> which may contain RSA, DSA, or ECDSA keys. If however you provide a
> simple patch that reads the structure for an gnutls_pubkey_t, I'll be
> happy to include it in the 3.1 release.

Sorry for the delay, we are very buse ATM. I'll be happy to provide a
patch. Let me see what I can do in the next few days.

Best, René

>
> regards,
> Nikos


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