Re: Question on privatekey_from_file

[Vic Lee <llyzs@xxxxxxx>]

Oh there's one more problem. why the TYPE_RSA/TYPE_DSS were defined in
priv.h? I can't use them for privatekey_from_file unless I defined my
own constants.

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 12:21 +0800, Vic Lee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently I am trying to use privatekey_from_file without a public key. I
> think I can do it by:
> 
> privatekey_from_file -> publickey_from_privatekey -> publickey_to_string
> 
> But in order to call privatekey_from_file, I have to tell it the key
> type (RSA or DSS). Previously I could get the key type from
> publickey_from_file, but now I can't since I don't have the public key
> file.
> 
> I know it's quite easy to tell the keytype from the private key file by
> simply read the first line... but any reason why this cannot be done
> automatically inside libssh?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vic
> 
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