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RustCrypto: PKCS#8 (Private Keys)

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Pure Rust implementation of Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #8: Private-Key Information Syntax Specification (RFC 5208).

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About PKCS#8

PKCS#8 is a format for cryptographic private keys, often containing pairs of private and public keys.

You can identify a PKCS#8 private key encoded as PEM (i.e. text) by the following:

-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----

PKCS#8 private keys can optionally be encrypted under a password using key derivation algorithms like PBKDF2 and scrypt, and encrypted with ciphers like AES-CBC. When a PKCS#8 private key has been encrypted, it starts with the following:

-----BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY-----

PKCS#8 private keys can also be serialized in an ASN.1-based binary format. The PEM text encoding is a Base64 representation of this format.

Supported Algorithms

This crate is implemented in an algorithm-agnostic manner with the goal of enabling PKCS#8 support for any algorithm.

That said, it has been tested for interoperability against keys generated by OpenSSL for the following algorithms:

  • ECC (id-ecPublicKey)
  • Ed25519 (id-Ed25519)
  • RSA (id-rsaEncryption)
  • X25519 (id-X25519)

Please open an issue if you encounter trouble using it with a particular algorithm, including the ones listed above or other algorithms.

Minimum Supported Rust Version

This crate requires Rust 1.57 at a minimum.

We may change the MSRV in the future, but it will be accompanied by a minor version bump.

License

Licensed under either of:

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

About this crate

This library provides generalized PKCS#8 support designed to work with a number of different algorithms. It supports no_std platforms including ones without a heap (albeit with reduced functionality).

It supports decoding/encoding the following types:

  • [EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo]: (with pkcs5 feature) encrypted key.
  • PrivateKeyInfo: algorithm identifier and data representing a private key. Optionally also includes public key data for asymmetric keys.
  • SubjectPublicKeyInfo: algorithm identifier and data representing a public key (re-exported from the spki crate)

When the pem feature is enabled, it also supports decoding/encoding documents from “PEM encoding” format as defined in RFC 7468.

Encrypted Private Key Support

[EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo] supports decoding/encoding encrypted PKCS#8 private keys and is gated under the pkcs5 feature.

When the encryption feature of this crate is enabled, it provides [EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo::decrypt] and [PrivateKeyInfo::encrypt] functions which are able to decrypt/encrypt keys using the following algorithms:

Legacy DES-CBC and DES-EDE3-CBC (3DES) support (optional)

When the des-insecure and/or 3des features are enabled this crate provides support for private keys encrypted with with DES-CBC and DES-EDE3-CBC (3DES or Triple DES) symmetric encryption, respectively.

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

DES support (gated behind the des-insecure feature) is implemented to allow for decryption of legacy PKCS#8 files only.

Such PKCS#8 documents should be considered INSECURE due to the short 56-bit key size of DES.

New keys should use AES instead.

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Structs

Enums

  • Error
    Error type
  • Version
    Version identifier for PKCS#8 documents.

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