Re: Converting private key from OpenSSH to lsh (or the other way around)

[email protected] (Niels M=C3=B6ller) writes:

    Nice. BTW, pkcs1-conv is intended to work also with PEM-formatted
    input, if you had any problem with that, I'd like to hear. You
    still need to use openssl for decrypting the key, though.

Yes, I've got "Invalid PKCS#1 private key." from pkcs1-conv when I
tried to feed it with PEM-formatted input instead of DER-formatted
one:

    $ openssl rsa -inform PEM -outform PEM -in ~/.ssh/id_rsa \
              -out /tmp/id_rsa.nopass.pem

    $ cat /tmp/id_rsa.nopass.pem | pkcs1-conv --private-rsa-key
    Invalid PKCS#1 private key.

I've noticed that I can convince pkcs1-conv to process PEM-formatted
input if I drop the "--private-rsa-key" argument:

    $ cat /tmp/id_rsa.nopass.pem | pkcs1-conv

This outputs the expected result, completely identical to the working
example using DER (posted in my previous message).

    You're brave, trying to play around with the experimental release
    ;-)

I'm just experimenting, so the experimental release is just perfect
for me. ;-)