On Thu, Feb 11, 2016, Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL wrote: > ^^^^^ > Probably correct IN THIS ONE CASE, because Most Significant Bit is zero > even without the leading zero byte. See below. > > >>The problem is that is an invalid encoding. An ASN.1 INTEGER cannot > >>contain > >> leading zeroes. > > I???m pretty sure this is not correct. It???s been a while since I touched > ASN.1, but I had quite a bit of experience with it back when. >
I should've been a bit clearer. I should have said additional or superfluous leading zeroes which is the cases here because there is a leading zero and the MSB of the second octet is also zero. Others have referenced the relevant sections of the standards that require that. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
