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instance method

OpenSSL::PKey::EC#to_text

key.to_text => String

ext/openssl/ossl_pkey_ec.c View on GitHub ↗

static VALUE ossl_ec_key_to_text(VALUE self)
{
    EC_KEY *ec;
    BIO *out;
    VALUE str;

    GetEC(self, ec);
    if (!(out = BIO_new(BIO_s_mem()))) {
        ossl_raise(eECError, "BIO_new(BIO_s_mem())");
    }
    if (!EC_KEY_print(out, ec, 0)) {
        BIO_free(out);
        ossl_raise(eECError, "EC_KEY_print");
    }
    str = ossl_membio2str(out);

    return str;
}

See the OpenSSL documentation for EC_KEY_print()