> [randy.ge...@oracle.com - Thu Dec 30 21:30:14 2010]:
> 
> The issue is encountered in the following function in
> src\openssl\openssl-0.9.8m\crypto\evp\evp_lib.c:
>  

There aren't AFAIK any standards for using ECB mode in PKCS#7 largely
because it can be insecure: for example the same plaintext block always
produces the same ciphertext block throughout a message. The fact that
OpenSSL support ECB mode at all in PKCS#7 is more a quirk than by design.

Steve.
-- 
Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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