// Copyright 2014 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package internal import ( "crypto/rsa" "crypto/x509" "encoding/pem" "errors" "fmt" ) // ParseKey converts the binary contents of a private key file // to an *rsa.PrivateKey. It detects whether the private key is in a // PEM container or not. If so, it extracts the the private key // from PEM container before conversion. It only supports PEM // containers with no passphrase. func ParseKey(key []byte) (*rsa.PrivateKey, error) { block, _ := pem.Decode(key) if block != nil { key = block.Bytes } parsedKey, err := x509.ParsePKCS8PrivateKey(key) if err != nil { parsedKey, err = x509.ParsePKCS1PrivateKey(key) if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("private key should be a PEM or plain PKCS1 or PKCS8; parse error: %v", err) } } parsed, ok := parsedKey.(*rsa.PrivateKey) if !ok { return nil, errors.New("private key is invalid") } return parsed, nil }