load_private

Availability::- use_module(library(ssl)).(can be autoloaded)

[det]load_private_key(+Stream, +Password, -PrivateKey)

Load a private key PrivateKey from the given stream Stream, using Password to decrypt the key if it is encrypted. Note that the password is currently only supported for PEM files. DER-encoded keys which are password protected will not load. The key must be an RSA, EC, Ed25519 or X25519 key. DH and DSA keys are not supported, and PrivateKey will be bound to an atom (dh_key or dsa_key) if you try and load such a key. Otherwise PrivateKey will be unified with private_key(KeyTerm), where KeyTerm is one of:

rsa/8 for RSA keys
ec/3 for EC keys
ed25519/1 holding the hexadecimal key pair in PKCS#8 v2 format, suitable for ed25519_sign/4
x25519/1 holding the hexadecimal scalar, suitable for curve25519_scalar_mult/3

History

Extended in 10.1.12 (👉a1da5be) load_private_key/3 and load_public_key/2 support Ed25519 and X25519