Re: 2.5.7 gnutls_x509_privkey_generate() returns GNUTLS_E_INVALID_REQUEST

[Sam Varshavchik]

Simon Josefsson writes:

> Sam Varshavchik <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > The following short test program runs when compiled against
> > 2.4.0. Compiling it against 2.5.7 causes it to report a
> > GNUTLS_E_INVALID_REQUEST from the second call to
> > gnutls_x509_privkey_generate().
>
> I can't reproduce this, adding this somewhere:
>
>   printf ("vers %s %s\n", LIBGNUTLS_VERSION, gnutls_check_version (NULL));
>
> Does print 2.5.7 for both, confirming that I really use 2.5.7.  So it

Yes.

> seems something else is required to reproduce this.  Can you try to
> debug gnutls_x509_privkey_generate and see what happens?
>
> Does 'certtool -p' trigger the same problem for you?

Yes, certtool also bombs out.

$ certtool -p
Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key…
certtool: privkey_generate: The request is invalid.

I'm going to debug this. Debugging code compiled with -O is a pain. I'll 
need to recompile the library without optimization. The only thing I have to 
add is that this is on x86_64, which may or may not be a factor.

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