Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> 
> I just gor a CSR (included below) that fails verification on Linux but
> where verification succeeds on VMS.  In both cases, OpenSSL 0.9.6b is
> used:
> 
> openssl req -in DaveJones.csr -noout -verify
> 
> gives "verify failure" on my Linux laptop, and "verify OK" on my VAX.
> So I'm confused, is that CSR correct or not?  Could it be some BIGNUM
> problem lurking around?  I'll check out a little, but would appreciate
> some help here...

The proximate cause is that fails the padding check (in fact, appears to
not be padded at all). Tricky to say more than that - but it'd be
interesting to compare the numbers in RSA_eay_public_decrypt() for the
two runs.

Note that I just updated req.c to print the error when verify fils.

Cheers,

Ben.

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