On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 18:46 +0100, Richard Levitte wrote:
> In message 
> <489af892b16b43ee9a7009ffe52db...@usma1ex-dag1mb1.msg.corp.akamai.com> on 
> Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:40:54 +0000, "Salz, Rich" <rs...@akamai.com> said:
> 
> rsalz> > The more interesting part is when it tries to load files it guesses 
> are raw DER.
> rsalz> 
> rsalz> And this part worries me.  I do not think a "security library" should 
> be guessing.
> 
> It does this by trying to interpret the blob against known ASN.1
> definitions, and will only succeed when there's a complete match.  I'm
> not terribly worried...

And even if you were, you should be *more* worried about making
*applications* do it for themselves :)

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