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Re: [gnutls-dev] [gnutls-cvs PATCH] Fix handling of PKCS#12 and contents


From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Subject: Re: [gnutls-dev] [gnutls-cvs PATCH] Fix handling of PKCS#12 and contents without apassphrase
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:05:05 +0200
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On Tuesday 27 September 2005 11:34, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Hi,
> Gnutls has bugs when handling PKCS#12 files and their contents when
> they do not have a passphrase.
> OpenSSL's "openssl pkcs12" utility worked fine to load and dump those
> PKCS#12 files which made me look into the gnutls source code and I managed
> to find out what was going on after a log of debugging.  For example
> gnutls didn't allow a 0 MPI which is perfectly valid.  Also it had no
> concept of empty passwords (it assumed password = NULL means not encrypted
> which is wrong) and finally it did not understand the difference between
> password = NULL and password = "".
> The below patch fixes all the above problems.  It is against the current
> gnutls cvs (generated using "cvs diff").  Please apply.

Hello Anton,
 Thank you for the patch. I've changed some things since some parts of gnutls 
rely on this property of mpi_scan(). If the attached patch works for you I'll 
apply it to the cvs.

-- 
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos

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