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- c: Copyright (C) 1998 - 2022, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
- SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
- Long: key
- Arg: <key>
- Protocols: TLS SSH
- Help: Private key file name
- Category: tls ssh
- Example: --cert certificate --key here $URL
- Added: 7.9.3
- See-also: key-type cert
- Multi: single
- ---
- Private key file name. Allows you to provide your private key in this separate
- file. For SSH, if not specified, curl tries the following candidates in order:
- '~/.ssh/id_rsa', '~/.ssh/id_dsa', './id_rsa', './id_dsa'.
- If curl is built against OpenSSL library, and the engine pkcs11 is available,
- then a PKCS#11 URI (RFC 7512) can be used to specify a private key located in a
- PKCS#11 device. A string beginning with "pkcs11:" will be interpreted as a
- PKCS#11 URI. If a PKCS#11 URI is provided, then the --engine option will be set
- as "pkcs11" if none was provided and the --key-type option will be set as
- "ENG" if none was provided.
- If curl is built against Secure Transport or Schannel then this option is
- ignored for TLS protocols (HTTPS, etc). Those backends expect the private key
- to be already present in the keychain or PKCS#12 file containing the
- certificate.
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