I'm very sorry for the late reply but I only read the list from time to time. To my knowledge, the PKCS7_sign will init the structure taking data from th BIO, so if you put data in the BIO after the call to PKCS7_Sign, that won't go into the PKCS7 structure. Possibly, by adding the flag PKCS7_STREAM you may postpone the signature operation, but I never tried that.

On 05/16/2018 05:19 PM, Patrice Guérin wrote:
Hello OpenSSL-users

In the purpose of signing pdf files, I've found a difference of behaviour that I can't explain between two ways of computing signatures. The first one leads to an error in the way that Adobe says that the file was modified after signing, the second does not.

First Method:
    BIO* BioMem = BIO_new( BIO_s_mem() );
    while ( Data )
BIO_write( BioMem , Data, DataLen );
    MyPKCS7 = PKCS7_sign( Certificate, PrivateKey,NULL, BioMem , PKCS7_DETACHED | PKCS7_BINARY );
    PKCS7_final( MyPKCS7, BioMem , PKCS7_DETACHED | PKCS7_BINARY );
    BIO* BioOut = BIO_new( BIO_s_mem() );
    i2d_PKCS7_bio( BioOut , MyPKCS7 );
    char*    OutBuf = NULL;
    int OutLen = BIO_get_mem_data( BioOut , &OutBuf );

Second Method:
    BIO* BioMem = BIO_new( BIO_s_mem() );
    MyPKCS7 = PKCS7_sign( Certificate, PrivateKey,NULL, BioMem , PKCS7_DETACHED | PKCS7_BINARY );
    while ( Data )
        BIO_write( BioMem , Data, DataLen );
    PKCS7_final( MyPKCS7, BioMem , PKCS7_DETACHED | PKCS7_BINARY );
    BIO* BioOut = BIO_new( BIO_s_mem() );
    i2d_PKCS7_bio( BioOut , MyPKCS7 );
    char*    OutBuf = NULL;
    int OutLen = BIO_get_mem_data( BioOut , &OutBuf );

It seems that the order between PKCS7_sign et BIO_Write that feeds the memory BIO has an importance.

Can anybody explains why the first method is incorrect ?

Thank you in advance
Patrice.


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