[Caml-list] PEM to Cryptokit

[Caml-list] PEM to Cryptokit

[Микола Стрєбков]

Hi, list

I had to convert a private key in PEM format to Cryptokit.RSA.key. First of all, I found pem2cryptokit from oauth project: http://code.google.com/p/ooauth/source/browse/trunk/pem2cryptokit.c. But it didn't work (see issue@googlecode reported).

So, I wrote my own variant: https://gist.github.com/756823. 

Comments and suggestions are welcomed.

-- 
Mykola Stryebkov
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[Caml-list] Re: PEM to Cryptokit

[Sylvain Le Gall]

On 28-12-2010, Микола Стрєбков <nick@mykola.org> wrote:
> Hi, list
>
> I had to convert a private key in PEM format to Cryptokit.RSA.key.
> First of all, I found pem2cryptokit from oauth project:
> http://code.google.com/p/ooauth/source/browse/trunk/pem2cryptokit.c.
> But it didn't work (see issue@googlecode reported).
>
> So, I wrote my own variant: https://gist.github.com/756823. 
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcomed.
>

Using pcre for this task is maybe a little bit overkilling. I think a
simple Scanf should do. 

Maybe even simple, split the string at ':' and match the first part:
match split_colon line with 
 | "Private-Key", data -> 
    Scanf.sscanf data "%d bit" (set_size key)

 | "modulus", data -> ...
    ...

 | "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----" ->
    ...

 | _ ->

It should make your code a little more compact.

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall