From 7573a3442d39044073a1794d7cc86cac935c4720 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:49:04 +0000
Subject: New BER encoding funcs for PKCS and X.509. Remove Private_Key dep
 here

---
 src/pubkey/x509_key.h | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/pubkey/x509_key.h')

diff --git a/src/pubkey/x509_key.h b/src/pubkey/x509_key.h
index 13f11646e..d9e9f2d7c 100644
--- a/src/pubkey/x509_key.h
+++ b/src/pubkey/x509_key.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
 * X.509 Public Key
-* (C) 1999-2007 Jack Lloyd
+* (C) 1999-2010 Jack Lloyd
 *
 * Distributed under the terms of the Botan license
 */
@@ -16,18 +16,16 @@
 namespace Botan {
 
 /**
-* This namespace contains functions for handling X509 objects.
+* This namespace contains functions for handling X.509 public keys
 */
 namespace X509 {
 
 /**
-* Encode a key into a pipe.
+* BER encode a key
 * @param key the public key to encode
-* @param pipe the pipe to feed the encoded key into
-* @param enc the encoding type to use
+* @return the BER encoding of this key
 */
-BOTAN_DLL void encode(const Public_Key& key, Pipe& pipe,
-                      X509_Encoding enc = PEM);
+BOTAN_DLL MemoryVector<byte> BER_encode(const Public_Key& key);
 
 /**
 * PEM encode a public key into a string.
@@ -44,11 +42,11 @@ BOTAN_DLL std::string PEM_encode(const Public_Key& key);
 BOTAN_DLL Public_Key* load_key(DataSource& source);
 
 /**
-* Create a public key from a string.
-* @param enc the string containing the PEM encoded key
+* Create a public key from a file
+* @param file pathname to the file to load
 * @return the new public key object
 */
-BOTAN_DLL Public_Key* load_key(const std::string& enc);
+BOTAN_DLL Public_Key* load_key(const std::string& filename);
 
 /**
 * Create a public key from a memory region.
@@ -73,10 +71,25 @@ BOTAN_DLL Public_Key* copy_key(const Public_Key& key);
 * @return the combination of key type specific constraints and
 * additional limits
 */
-
 BOTAN_DLL Key_Constraints find_constraints(const Public_Key& pub_key,
                                            Key_Constraints limits);
 
+/**
+* Encode a key into a pipe. This function is deprecated.
+* @param key the public key to encode
+* @param pipe the pipe to feed the encoded key into
+* @param encoding the encoding type to use
+*/
+inline void encode(const Public_Key& key,
+                      Pipe& pipe,
+                      X509_Encoding encoding = PEM)
+   {
+   if(encoding == PEM)
+      pipe.write(X509::PEM_encode(key));
+   else
+      pipe.write(X509::BER_encode(key));
+   }
+
 }
 
 }
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