Function X509KeyPair

tls.go:245–334

X509KeyPair parses a public/private key pair from a pair of PEM encoded data. On successful return, Certificate.Leaf will be nil because the parsed form of the certificate is not retained.

(certPEMBlock, keyPEMBlock []byte)

// PEM encoded data. On successful return, Certificate.Leaf will be nil because
// the parsed form of the certificate is not retained.
func X509KeyPair(certPEMBlock, keyPEMBlock []byte) (Certificate, error) {
	fail := func(err error) (Certificate, error) { return Certificate{}, err }

	var cert Certificate
	var skippedBlockTypes []string
	for {
		var certDERBlock *pem.Block
		certDERBlock, certPEMBlock = pem.Decode(certPEMBlock)
		if certDERBlock == nil {
			break
		}
		if certDERBlock.Type == "CERTIFICATE" {
			cert.Certificate = append(cert.Certificate, certDERBlock.Bytes)
		} else {
			skippedBlockTypes = append(skippedBlockTypes, certDERBlock.Type)
		}
	}

	if len(cert.Certificate) == 0 {
		if len(skippedBlockTypes) == 0 {
			return fail(errors.New("tls: failed to find any PEM data in certificate input"))
		}
		if len(skippedBlockTypes) == 1 && strings.HasSuffix(skippedBlockTypes[0], "PRIVATE KEY") {
			return fail(errors.New("tls: failed to find certificate PEM data in certificate input, but did find a private key; PEM inputs may have been switched"))
		}
		return fail(fmt.Errorf("tls: failed to find \"CERTIFICATE\" PEM block in certificate input after skipping PEM blocks of the following types: %v", skippedBlockTypes))
	}

	skippedBlockTypes = skippedBlockTypes[:0]
	var keyDERBlock *pem.Block
	for {
		keyDERBlock, keyPEMBlock = pem.Decode(keyPEMBlock)
		if keyDERBlock == nil {
			if len(skippedBlockTypes) == 0 {
				return fail(errors.New("tls: failed to find any PEM data in key input"))
			}
			if len(skippedBlockTypes) == 1 && skippedBlockTypes[0] == "CERTIFICATE" {
				return fail(errors.New("tls: found a certificate rather than a key in the PEM for the private key"))
			}
			return fail(fmt.Errorf("tls: failed to find PEM block with type ending in \"PRIVATE KEY\" in key input after skipping PEM blocks of the following types: %v", skippedBlockTypes))
		}
		if keyDERBlock.Type == "PRIVATE KEY" || strings.HasSuffix(keyDERBlock.Type, " PRIVATE KEY") {
			break
		}
		skippedBlockTypes = append(skippedBlockTypes, keyDERBlock.Type)
	}

	// We don't need to parse the public key for TLS, but we so do anyway
	// to check that it looks sane and matches the private key.
	x509Cert, err := x509.ParseCertificate(cert.Certificate[0])
	if err != nil {
		return fail(err)
	}

	cert.PrivateKey, err = parsePrivateKey(keyDERBlock.Bytes)
	if err != nil {
		return fail(err)
	}