I'm trying to store a private key generated with Crypt::RSA into a MySQL database. However, when I retrieve it from the database as a string I have no way of getting Crypt::RSA to use it to decrypt the data. For example: 
my $private_key = $sth->fetchrow(); #Stored as a string

#I need to put $private_key in a format readable by the function below

my $plaintext = $rsa->decrypt ( 
            Cyphertext => $cyphertext, 
            Key        => $private_key,
            Armour     => 1,
        ) || die $rsa->errstr();

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The only way I've been able to get this to work is to store the private key in a file and have Crypt::RSA read it back in like this: 
$private_key = new Crypt::RSA::Key::Private (
                 Filename => 'private_key_file'
                );

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But obviously writing a private key to a file is not a good idea, so I've also tried using IO::Scalar and IO::String to see if I could give the string a filehandle, with no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

In reply to Private keys in Crypt::RSA by jmking

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