On 03/28/2011 05:32 AM, Superpacko wrote: > On 23 mar, 14:40, Robert Relyea <rrel...@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 03/23/2011 06:24 AM, Superpacko wrote:> Well, so i 've been told that i >> shuld be able to extract the MPI as >>> bytes and pass it to NSS since GPG original key format is PEM, i >>> should be able to use MPIs data as raw bytes. >> If it's really PEM (which should be a printable string), then you should >> be able to pull out the Base 64 portion and pass it to the NSS atob routine: >> >> ATOB_ConvertAsciiToItem() >> >> It will return a secItem which has a date and a length. This secitem is >> DER data. >> >> bob >> >> PEM is an ascii file in which all the data outside specific wrappers: >> ( ------------------------- BEGIN xxxxx ---------------------------------), >> (---------------------- END xxx ------------------------) >> are ignored. Inside the wrappers is base 64 encoded binary. Base 64 >> takes the 27 letters of the alphabet, both upper and lower case, with >> the 10 digits, plus and / and assigns each a value between 0 and 64. The >> binary blob is then considered a long binary integer. That integer is >> converted to base 64 using those printable digits. The encoding used 4 >> base 64 digits to encode 3 binary bytes (base 64 is 6 bits per value) >> >> The PEM base64 pem data is DER data, so the nss der functions should >> work for them, once you've decoded the base 64. >> >> bob >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> The thing is that the only function i found that takes unsigned char* >>> as argument is PK11_MakeKEAPubKey, and when i try to encrypt using >>> that key, i get error 8178 (BAD KEY) >>> So is there a way to import a public and private key with raw bytes? >>> so far i've seen that most functions need SECKEYPrivateKeyInfo and >>> stuff like that. > Thanks for the help, im going to try to extract this information from > the key stored in the MPIs. > Is there a way to import an RSA key from external source that is not > DER encoded nor KEA? Do you mean an RSA public key or an RSA private key?
bob > otherwise im gonna have to build a custom PK11_MakeRSAPubKey to create > a SECKEYPublicKey from raw bytes, filling the > modulusItem.data = modulusData; > modulusItem.len = modulusLen; > exponentItem.data = exponentData; > exponentItem.len = exponentLen; > > with the info from the raw bytes. > > thanks again!
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