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Extend key -read and -write functions #279

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If an existing key or the new key is not intended to be stored in a file, the current implementation requires the creation of temporary files with all its odds (cleanup, symlink attack, mktemp)

This change allows to provide the key in many different ways:

A filename of "-" translates to for reading and for writing.

If the file named by "filename" does not exist,
check whether it contains a "-----BEGIN" and try interpreting the filename itself as key.

Extend documentation in README.md

If an existing key or the new key is not intended to be stored
in a file, the current implementation requires the creation of
temporary files with all its odds (cleanup, symlink attack, mktemp)

This change allows to provide the key in many different ways:

A filename of "-" translates to <stdin> for reading and
<stdout> for writing.

If the file named by "filename" does not exist,
check whether it contains a "-----BEGIN" and try interpreting
the filename itself as key.

Extend documentation in README.md

Signed-off-by: Christian Hohnstaedt <christian@hohnstaedt.de>
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