PKCS1 format of the Private Key

[srlohr]

Hello - I have made local changes to support the PKCS1 format for private keys which uses this header:
"-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n"
It seems that existing support is only for the PKCS8 format. Is it interesting to add this support, or is the format too old and expectation is to only use keys with PKCS8 format? I use the AWS certificate authority to generate keys for a new IOT Thing, and the default output is still a private RSA key in PKCS1 format. Of course there are tools to convert to other format, and manual hack to just remove the "RSA" text to make it work with existing KMQTT client as work-around.

[davidepianca98]

Hello, it is for sure interesting. Something I would like to do. Unfortunately I am very tight on time to dedicate to this project lately. I have created an issue to avoid about forgetting the feature request #87.