On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 11:11:58AM -0500, Felipe Gasper wrote:
> Does OpenSSL intend to handle EC public keys that in PEM begin “BEGIN EC PUBLIC KEY”?
I doubt it, but there is:
$ openssl genpkey -algorithm ec -pkeyopt ec_paramgen_curve:prime256v1 | openssl ec
read EC key
writing EC key
-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----
MHcCAQEEIDvaIBqlCepZmpLChB7wW1aMbecIsw79AftoaZttrdaEoAoGCCqGSM49
AwEHoUQDQgAE0XMziiLRVpKP/jNklqzZqejJKgcK+TQ9wynz3etCRqOq8hzW24VG
PY+ORzD9LJqTMQF7NJytxR4vcCVcrpuXGg==
-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----
There is no correspoding EC-specific PEM public key form in OpenSSL.
You should be using the algorithm agnostic formats.
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Viktor.
