1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: key 5Arg: <key> 6Protocols: TLS SSH 7Help: Private key filename 8Category: tls ssh 9Added: 7.9.3 10Multi: single 11See-also: 12 - key-type 13 - cert 14Example: 15 - --cert certificate --key here $URL 16--- 17 18# `--key` 19 20Private key filename. Allows you to provide your private key in this separate 21file. For SSH, if not specified, curl tries the following candidates in order: 22`~/.ssh/id_rsa`, `~/.ssh/id_dsa`, `./id_rsa`, `./id_dsa`. 23 24If curl is built against OpenSSL library, and the engine pkcs11 is available, 25then a PKCS#11 URI (RFC 7512) can be used to specify a private key located in 26a PKCS#11 device. A string beginning with `pkcs11:` is interpreted as a 27PKCS#11 URI. If a PKCS#11 URI is provided, then the --engine option is set as 28`pkcs11` if none was provided and the --key-type option is set as `ENG` if 29none was provided. 30 31If curl is built against Secure Transport or Schannel then this option is 32ignored for TLS protocols (HTTPS, etc). Those backends expect the private key 33to be already present in the keychain or PKCS#12 file containing the 34certificate. 35
