Richard Levitte via RT wrote: > What happens is that if serial contains '00' when you sign, the > DB_serial field in index.txt will end up containing '0', not '00'. > The next time you try to sign a certificate, 'openssl ca' will > notice that the DB_serial field has an incorrect length (the length > should be a non-zero multiple of 2). > > The reason this happens is that BN_bn2hex has a special case when > the bignum is 0: it gives you "0" back. In all other cases, the > amount of hex digits will always be even. > > The question is, of course, if one should correct BN_bn2hex() to > produce "00" for zero, or if ca.c should be changed to counter this > misfeature. I'd like to make the correction in BN_bn2hex(). > Opinions?
Sorry, but although I edited some source file, I am no programmer... Olaf ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
