Re: pki_private_key_from_base64: key flags issue

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 24 August 2014 12:18:55 Artyom Poptsov wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> I found that `pki_private_key_from_base64' procedure returns a key with
> both private and public flag set.  It makes it impossible to determine
> whether the key is public or private with `ssh_key_is_private' and
> `ssh_key_is_public' predicates because they both return 1 (true) for the
> key.
> 
> The issue was found in libssh 0.6.3 and as far as I can see it persists
> in the latest commits in the repository.
> 
> Is it done intentionally?

A key is always a public key but it may have be a private key too. You can get 
a public key from a private key, see ssh_pki_export_privkey_to_pubkey():

http://api.libssh.org/stable/group__libssh__pki.html#ga5777bc537da6a447b2a9aa9eceff9877



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