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
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.
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