curl-library
Re: problem about using libcurl to set up SFTP connection
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:19:54 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:19:54 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Michael Wood wrote:
> I could be mistaken, but doesn't the SSH private key file contain the public
> key as well anyway? I seem to remember seeing that mentioned somewhere.
Almost.
The public key can be _derived_ from the private key, but it requires a little
applied math/code to do it. (That's what the missing code in libssh2 should
do...)
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