Re: Extracting the public modulus from an RSA public key?

[Dr Paul Dale <paul.dale@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Might I suggest reading the documentation?

RSA_get0_n() is the function you are wanting.

Pauli

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On 6 May 2020, at 2:20 pm, Thomas Dwyer III <tomiii@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm porting some old legacy code from OpenSSL 1.0.2 to OpenSSL 3.0.0. A portion of this code reads X509 certificates, extracts the public key, and passes it to firmware that I cannot modify. Unfortunately, this legacy firmware API was very poorly designed such that the public key is passed in a way similar to:

    RSA *rsa = get_pubkey_from_cert(...)

    BIGNUM *bn = rsa->n;

    int len = BN_num_bytes(bn);

    unsigned char *buf = malloc(len);

    BN_bn2bin(bn, buf);

    pubkey_to_firmware(buf, len);

Yuck. Ignoring the fact that this firmware appears to assume a constant exponent 'e', I cannot find a way to extract the modulus 'n' from the RSA key. I understand this is intentional. The only solution I could find is to print the key to a buffer via EVP_PKEY_print_public(), parse the result to extract the modulus into a giant hex string, and then BN_hex2bn() that back into a BIGNUM. Is there a better way?

Thanks,

Tom.III