Cannot add private PEM key to storage

[mirik123]

I receive an error "no importer for key" when try to add private key to keystore.

var privkey = fs.readFileSync('/certs/key.pem');
var jose = require('node-jose');
var keystore = jose.JWK.createKeyStore();
keystore.add(privkey, 'pem')
    .then(function (key) {
        joseprivkey = key;
    },
    function (err) {
        console.error('Failed to create JWE key: ', err);
});

forge.asn1.validate errors:
[ECPrivateKey] Expected type "16", got "3"
[ECPrivateKey] Expected tag class "0", got "64"

type: SEQUENCE, got BITSTRING
tag class: UNIVERSAL, got APPLICATION

certificate:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-256-CBC,DA07AA34F2B9374D582546854D8362F5
XXX
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

[linuxwolf]

This method does not supported encrypted private keys. You would need to first decrypt it via other means and then pass the decrypted PEM to add().

[mirik123]

That means that the private key should be without passphrase?

[linuxwolf]

That is correct