15.2.4 PEM

Bigloo is able to read and write RSA and DSA keys in PEM format. This is the default format used by OpenSSL.

The following example creates a new DSA key pair in OpenSSL and stores it in PEM format.

$ openssl dsaparam 1024 -out /tmp/dsaparam
$ openssl gendsa /tmp/dsaparam

Bigloo Cryptography procedure: read-pem-key in

Bigloo Cryptography procedure: read-pem-key-port input-port

Bigloo Cryptography procedure: read-pem-key-file filename

Bigloo Cryptography procedure: read-pem-key-string str

These functions will read a PEM encoded key. The encoded file may contain a private or public RSA key, or a private or public DSA key.

The procedure read-pem-key accepts input-ports and strings. In the case of a string it will invoke read-pem-key-file (and not read-pem-key-string).

Bigloo Cryptography procedure: write-pem-key key out [public-key-only?]

Bigloo Cryptography procedure: write-pem-key-port key out [public-key-only?]

Bigloo Cryptography procedure: write-pem-key-file key out [public-key-only?]

Bigloo Cryptography procedure: write-pem-key-string key [public-key-only?]

These functions write the given key. The key may be a private/public RSA/DSA key.

The procedure write-pem-key accepts output-ports and strings as out parameter. If out is a string it will delegate to write-pem-key-file.

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