Take a look at the new STORE functions in 1.1.1. They do something like what you are describing. They can take a URI and load whatever objects it finds there using the right kind of loader based on the PEM type. You can also search for particular objects in your store. See: https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man3/OSSL_STORE_load.html https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man3/OSSL_STORE_INFO.html https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man3/OSSL_STORE_SEARCH.html Matt On 28/03/18 16:02, Jordan Brown wrote: > I'm finding that it would be helpful to have a function that would, > given PEM data (in memory or in a file) return an indication of what > kind of object it represents: a certificate, a private key, et cetera. > The ideal function would basically tell me which PEM_read_bio_foobar > function I would use to read the PEM data (and thus what C type it > represents). It would lump all private key formats into one type, since > PEM_read_PrivateKey would work on all of them and return an EVP_PKEY. > > Does such a function already exist? Any thoughts? > > -- > Jordan Brown, Oracle Solaris > > > -- openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users
