Golang crypto/tls.X509KeyPair function usage example

X509KeyPairtest.go

package main
import (
  "fmt"
  "os"
  "crypto/tls"
  "crypto/x509"
)
func main() {
  var rsaCertPEM = [] byte(`-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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-----END CERTIFICATE-----`)
  var rsaKeyPEM = [] byte(`-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----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-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----`)
  certificate, err: = tls.X509KeyPair([] byte(rsaCertPEM), [] byte(rsaKeyPEM))
  if err != nil {
      fmt.Println(err)
      os.Exit(1)
    }
    // certificate
  var cert_byte[][] byte
  cert_byte = certificate.Certificate
  fmt.Printf("Server.pem file content :\n%s\n", cert_byte)
    // private key
  fmt.Printf("Server.key(Private Key) \n%x\n", certificate.PrivateKey)
    // OCSPStaple
  var ocsp[] byte
  ocsp = certificate.OCSPStaple
  fmt.Printf("OCSPStaple : \n%x\n", ocsp)
    // Leaf
  var lf * x509.Certificate
  fmt.Printf("Leaf \n%x\n", & lf)
}

This saved me. Two points that I was missing:

1. I did not use backticks, which allows the new lines to be preserved in the PEM string.
2. Visual Studio neatly aligned my PEM blocks - which corrupted the data and resulted in the error "tls: failed to find any PEM data in certificate input". When I removed the leading spaces on each line of the certificate and key, all worked.

Thanks for the sample!!