On Fri, Jan 29, 2010, karthik.chama...@infineon.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to parse a verisign certificate in Openssl.
>
> But, this fails because of a check in openssl.
> If the tag is set to -1, then it is set to Universal as below.
> /* If no IMPLICIT tagging set to SEQUENCE, UNIVERSAL */
> if(tag == -1) {
> tag = V_IFX_TLS_ASN1_SEQUENCE;
> aclass = V_ASN1_UNIVERSAL;
> }
>
> When the certificate is parsed, in ASN1_get_object, it checks whether it is
> V_ASN1_PRIMITIVE_TAG.
> It is not and so it fails.
>
> I would like to know how to proceed with this.
>
It sounds like you haven't got a certificate but an certificate that has an
IMPLICIT tag on it. If you write an appopriate ASN1 module that is handled
automatically.
This is an openssl-users question btw.
Steve.
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