How to parse multiples x509 certificates in Go

[lionel Lioninho]

Hi Gophers,

I'm a newbie in Go and I'm trying to experiment a bit on certificate management in Go.

The first task I want to do is to parse multiples certificate given as a string DER format to a slice of *x509.Certificate.

I tried this : 

package main

 import (

     "crypto/x509"

     "fmt"

     "encoding/pem"

 )

 func main() {

 var pemData = `

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----

MIIDujCCAqKgAwIBAgIIE31FZVaPXTUwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAwSTELMAkGA1UE

BhMCVVMxEzARBgNVBAoTCkdvb2dsZSBJbmMxJTAjBgNVBAMTHEdvb2dsZSBJbnRl

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-----END CERTIFICATE-----

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----

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-----END CERTIFICATE-----`

var block *pem.Block

var pemByte []byte

block, pemByte = pem.Decode([]byte(pemData))

pemCertsByte := append(block.Bytes, pemByte...)

c, err := x509.ParseCertificates([]byte(pemCertsByte))

fmt.Printf("%v", c, err)

}

But I got an error telling me that my input don't match a asn1 data form : 

[]%!(EXTRA asn1.StructuralError=asn1: structure error: tags don't match (16 vs {class:0 tag:13 length:45 isCompound:true}) {optional:false explicit:false application:false defaultValue:<nil> tag:<nil> stringType:

I found a tutorial on the web about the same subject but I don't where their input is comming from : https://www.socketloop.com/references/golang-crypto-x509-parsecertificates-function-example

I also looked into the godoc of x509 package but I don"t get what they mean by saying (in Red) : 

func ParseCertificates

func ParseCertificates(asn1Data []byte) ([]*Certificate, error)

ParseCertificates parses one or more certificates from the given ASN.1 DER data. The certificates must be concatenated with no intermediate padding.

Thanks in advance for your help guys

Regards 

[Giulio Iotti]

On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 6:02:40 PM UTC+3, lionel Lioninho wrote:

Hi Gophers,

I'm a newbie in Go and I'm trying to experiment a bit on certificate management in Go.

The first task I want to do is to parse multiples certificate given as a string DER format to a slice of *x509.Certificate.

Hi Lionel and welcome!

The problem is that you are appending the part of PEM that was *not* decoded to the part that was decoded. You should append the decoded parts together.

A bit like this: https://play.golang.org/p/OH3q5r40ex

-- 

Giulio Iotti

https://twitter.com/dullgiulio

[lionel Lioninho]

Ohhh great thanks a lot :)