-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- not catered for?

[ianharrigan]

Ive been trying to read a private key from a pem and kept getting back null, looking into it a little, i noticed that the header format

-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
...
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----

doesnt seem to be handled, just -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- - is this by design? I didnt create the pem file (and also cant share it), but it was created with openssl (maybe i can try and create a new one)... When i change the header to be the "RSA" version it still doesnt work, but maybe that'd be better as a different issue?

Cheers,
Ian

[Jens-G]

There's indeed a difference, these are two different formats
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20065304/differences-between-begin-rsa-private-key-and-begin-private-key

You happen to have a test case?