On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:33:29AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Log: > First alternative primitive type. BIGNUM and CBIGNUM. These convert > directly between an ASN1 INTEGER and a BIGNUM. CBIGNUM clears the > BIGNUM when it is freed (for sensitive information). > > These types will interpret an negative INTEGER as positive because > this is a common encoding error. Negative INTEGERs are rarely used > legitimately for large integers. No bug compatibility flag for this one? After all, interpreting negative INTEGERs as positive is incorrect behaviour and may actually lead to problems in some cases; also interoperability testing is more meaningful if errors are not tolerated by default. -- Bodo M�ller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/Mitarbeiter/moeller/0x36d2c658.html * TU Darmstadt, Theoretische Informatik, Alexanderstr. 10, D-64283 Darmstadt * Tel. +49-6151-16-6628, Fax +49-6151-16-6036 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
