Bug#948586: ITP: golang-github-youmark-pkcs8 -- Go package to parse and convert private keys in PKCS#8 format, as defined in RFC5208 and RFC5958

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>

* Package name    : golang-github-youmark-pkcs8
  Version         : 1.1
  Upstream Author : Yutong Wang (youmark)
* URL             : https://github.com/youmark/pkcs8
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Go
  Description     : Go package to parse and convert private keys in PKCS#8 format, as defined in RFC5208 and RFC5958

OpenSSL can generate private keys in both "traditional format" and
PKCS#8 format. Newer applications are advised to use more secure
PKCS#8 format. Go standard crypto package provides a function to parse
private key in PKCS#8 format. There is a limitation to this function.
It can only handle unencrypted PKCS#8 private keys. To use this
function, the user has to save the private key in file without
encryption, which is a bad practice to leave private keys unprotected
on file systems. In addition, Go standard package lacks the functions
to convert RSA/ECDSA private keys into PKCS#8 format.

pkcs8 package fills the gap here. It implements functions to process
private keys in PKCS#8 format, as defined in RFC5208 and RFC5958. It
can handle both unencrypted PKCS#8 PrivateKeyInfo format and
EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo format with PKCS#5 (v2.0) algorithms.

This package is required by rclone 1.50.2.

It will be maintained under the Debian Go Team.