[Autocrypt] How to create the "raw key" part from an RSA key
Bjoern
b44treader at googlemail.com
Tue May 16 07:13:01 EDT 2017
Hi there,
I'm just about to add AutoCrypt to Delta Chat.
I'm creating the key pair using the following code:
// generate key
BIGNUM* e = BN_new();
RSA* rsa = RSA_new();
BN_set_word(e, 65537);
if( RSA_generate_key_ex(rsa, 2024, e, 0) != 1 ) {
goto cleanup;
}
// convert RSA key to PUBLIC KEY
EVP_PKEY* pkey = EVP_PKEY_new();
EVP_PKEY_set1_RSA(pkey, rsa);
now I can get the keys as `-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- ...` and
`-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- ...` using
PEM_write_bio_PUBKEY(bio1, pkey);
and
PEM_write_bio_RSAPrivateKey(bio2, rsa, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);
But how can I get the key in the "raw" form needed by Autocrypt?
(base64 encoding itself is no problem)
(for various reasons, I cannont use libraries based upon GnuPG as PEP
or GPGME and I wanted a portable C code)
Any help is wecome as this would saves me tons of time :-) (I am not
expert in OpenSSL)
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