From: "MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet)" Date: 2012-09-27T09:10:39+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:47706] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7074][Rejected] OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(public_key) fails if public_key doesn't have -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- Issue #7074 has been updated by MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet). Category set to ext Status changed from Open to Rejected Assignee set to MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet) public_key2 is not a valid PEM format (the one in public_key1). It's valid Base64, true, but that's not what OpenSSL expects. It can deal with either DER- or PEM-encoded data. In my eyes, there's nothing wrong here, or did you mean something else? Unless you object, I would close this as "Rejected" to indicate that the behavior is intended and not a bug. PS: A clean way to deal with raw Base64 data such as in public_key2 would be to Base64-decode it first and then passing it on as in your example. ---------------------------------------- Bug #7074: OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(public_key) fails if public_key doesn't have -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7074#change-29756 Author: dlee (David Lee) Status: Rejected Priority: Normal Assignee: MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet) Category: ext Target version: 1.9.3 ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin12.0.0] =begin public_key1 = < works OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new public_key2 #=> fails with error: # OpenSSL::PKey::RSAError: Neither PUB key nor PRIV key:: nested asn1 error =end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/