[openssl-users] Checking if an EVP_PKEY* contains a private key

[Stephen Kou]

OpenSSL has the higher-level EVP_PKEY_* functions which work abstracts the public key cryptography algorithms.  However, sometimes a EVP_PKEY* only has a public key.  How could I check if a given EVP_PKEY* contains a private key?  I could use EVP_PKEY_decrypt_init and see if it returns an error, but that seems to be quite heavy-handed for what seems to be a simple check.  The other option is to go through the EVP_PKEY_get0_* functions and investigate the underlying mechanism directly (e.g. EVP_PKEY_get0_RSA and checking the RSA*'s private exponent is NULL), but that is also clumsy as I'll have to write code for every possible algorithm.

Thanks
Stephen
 		 	   		  
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