Manuel Mollar Villanueva wrote:
>
> small bug in opensssl-0.9.4:
>
> Using the 'enc' program present on the crypto/pkcs7 directory, I do:
> - take a string of 6 or less chars and save it on a file
> - apply the 'enc' prg to this file
> - apply the 'dec' prg to this file
>
> the result is an empty message.
>
> If the length of the string is >= 7, it works ok
>
Should be fixed in the latest snapshot. It comes under the category "how
the hell wasn't this noticed before?". The fix is in
crypto/evp/bio_enc.c so you can just copy the one file if you don't
trust snapshots.
Many thanks for the report.
Steve.
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