Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> If I understand correctly, one of the bigger issue is that PEM files
> may be ASCII or EBCDIC encoded, and that there may be some confusion
> about this particular detail and what is really supported, is that
> correct? I can't answer, since the support is old, from the SSLeay
> times, and without the possibility to verify the proper function of
> OpenSSL on that platform, support becomes hesitant at best.
Base64 encoding was devised precisely to avoid problems with
EBCDIC, which were rife with uuencoding, etc. As for DER-encoded
stuff, I can't imagine what the problem is.
Routines that print stuff or compare strings will have to
do some conversion...
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