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diff --git a/doc/compatibility.rst b/doc/compatibility.rst index 7d8b10f..e6b59a3 100644 --- a/doc/compatibility.rst +++ b/doc/compatibility.rst @@ -49,3 +49,14 @@ Encryption and decryption is also compatible:: $ openssl rsautl -in testfile.rsa -inkey privatekey.pem -decrypt hello there +Interoperability with PKCS#8 +-------------------------------------------------- + +The standard PKCS#8 is widely used, and more complex than the PKCS#1 +v1.5 supported by Python-RSA. In order to extract a key from the +PKCS#8 format you need an external tool such as OpenSSL:: + + openssl rsa -in privatekey-pkcs8.pem -out privatekey.pem + +You can then extract the corresponding public key as described above. + |