In message <c4b8313e-a8ec-0bee-dae2-147cee6214d5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:02:37 -0700, Jordan Brown <openssl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: openssl> I'm finding that it would be helpful to have a function that openssl> would, given PEM data (in memory or in a file) return an openssl> indication of what kind of object it represents: a openssl> certificate, a private key, et cetera. The ideal function openssl> would basically tell me which PEM_read_bio_foobar function I openssl> would use to read the PEM data (and thus what C type it openssl> represents). It would lump all private key formats into one openssl> type, since PEM_read_PrivateKey would work on all of them and openssl> return an EVP_PKEY. openssl> openssl> Does such a function already exist? Any thoughts? PEM_read and PEM_read_bio should do what you want. You need to provide three buffers, |name|, |header| and |data|. |name| will contain the name from the -----BEGIN line, that string describes the type of data you have in |data|. I suggest you read the manual on these functions, there are a few things you need to do to decode something that's encrypted, for example. Cheers, Richard -- openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users
