Le 05/03/2012 15:14, Stephen Henson via RT a écrit :
>> [steve - Fri Mar 02 03:57:59 2012]:
>>
>>> [[email protected] - Thu Mar 01 15:44:36 2012]:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In at least OpenSSL 0.9.8s and 1.0.1-beta1 there is a bug in the ASN.1
>>> parser that if one has length data such as
>>>
>>> 84 00 00 00 00
>>>
>>> at the end of a block to be parsed, it will give "header too long" error
>>> even though the ASN.1 is valid.
>> The last time I looked that wasn't a valid encoding. The length must be
>> expressed in the minimum number of octets possible, that applies to BER
>> as well as DER.
>>
> Hmm... must have confused it with something else. That *is* legal.
>

No, you were (partly) right. This is legal BER, not DER.

-- 
Erwann ABALEA
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