not be accessed by OpenSSL. The reference count of the public key is incremented (twice if there is no private key); it is not copied nor duplicated. This allows all private key validations checks to succeed without an actual private key being assigned via SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey(), etc.</p>

<p>SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_ASN1() adds the private key of type <b>pk</b> stored at memory location <b>d</b> (length <b>len</b>) to <b>ctx</b>. SSL_CTX_use_RSAPrivateKey_ASN1() adds the private key of type RSA stored at m