[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.
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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 = <<KEY
 -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
 MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCfW7fNVCLBii/Ky/H97w9BAL6H
 ifRM9sJkxo1dqCzvYHLk/89OmYMoDJ2+OgHRaoRpP+CSHiTkxQR1G+UbHLiQpZMo
 CbcHAN6nDVET5ulgA8xywOAuIEgsJ5CmhWG79rZGqDNg6N2V5jgZ8WgLRuTn6aGb
 +HqF23BDbpOUX8pGcQIDAQAB
 -----END PUBLIC KEY-----
 KEY
 
 public_key2 = <<KEY
 MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCfW7fNVCLBii/Ky/H97w9BAL6H
 ifRM9sJkxo1dqCzvYHLk/89OmYMoDJ2+OgHRaoRpP+CSHiTkxQR1G+UbHLiQpZMo
 CbcHAN6nDVET5ulgA8xywOAuIEgsJ5CmhWG79rZGqDNg6N2V5jgZ8WgLRuTn6aGb
 +HqF23BDbpOUX8pGcQIDAQAB
 KEY
 
 OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new 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



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