Recently I used mbedtls library in my working project. In accordance with the needs of the project, I added some functions to mbedtls for saving and loading keys in plain and encrypted pem and der forms. The changes are still raw and should be brought up to pull request requirements - there are no tests, since the functions tested as part of a working project which uses mbedtls.
I can, over time, finalize the changes to a pull request, but it will take some time and effort that you don't want to waste unnecessarily — this will have to be done at my home time. If there is an interest for this work, then I will try to do it, but if few people need it or do not coincide with the general direction of development of the project, then I would not bother. To be done: 1) added mbedtls_pk_write_key_pkcs8_der() write non-encrypted pkcs8 der key 2) added mbedtls_pk_write_key_pkcs8_pem() write non-encrypted pkcs8 pem key 3) added mbedtls_pk_write_key_encrypted_pem() write legacy encryped pem file with DEK-Info header 4) added mbedtls_pk_write_key_pkcs8_encrypted_der() write to encrypted pkcs8 der key; pkcs5 pbes1, pkcs12 and pbes2 schemes are supported 5) added mbedtls_pk_write_key_pkcs8_encrypted_pem() same as above but pem key 6) changed mbedtls_pem_read_buffer() which reads legacy encrypted pem formats (with DEK-Info header) now it uses mbedtls_cipher_… functions which allow to use any supported cipher rather than four enforced (was limited to des-cbc, des-ede3-cbc, ars-128-cbc and aes-256-cbc) 7) changed pk_parse_key_pkcs8_encrypted_der() 7.1) added pkcs5 pbes1 support MD5-DES-CB CpbeWithMD5AndDES-CBC) and SHA1-DES-CBC (pbeWithSHA1AndDES-CBC) 7.2) changed pkcs12 pbe (use same cipher for all SHA1-DES2-EDE-CBC (pbeWithSHAAnd2-KeyTripleDES-CBC), SHA1-DES3-EDE-CBC (pbeWithSHAAnd3-KeyTripleDES-CBC) and SHA1-RC4-128 (pbeWithSHA1And128BitRC4); (the special mbedtls_pkcs12_pbe_sha1_rc4_128() is not used now and may be removed) 7.3) changed pkcs5 pbes2 support: added AES-128-CBC and AES-256-CBC ciphers
Some «preview» is available at fork https://github.com/loafer-mka/mbedtls, branch ‘dev_clean’
Of course, many changes relate to obsolete formats, and may be undesirable … also I do not touch PSK at all. Please, give me some feedback — try to finish this with tests, pull request, etc or not.
----------- Regards, Andrey