On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Jaime Torres wrote:

> Hello openssl-users,
>
>   Recently I have made a dump of a certificate using:
>
>   openssl x509 -inform der -in <certificate file> -text
>   >certificate.dump
>
>   The dump has a small bug, the dump of the certificate was like:
>
>             RSA Public Key: (2048 bit)
>                 Modulus (2048 bit):
>                     00:bd:ac:2b:87:d8:a8:81:ea:42:f3:22:0f:94:8b:
>                     82:43:8d:82:f7:26:c1:95:35:f8:6c:8f:98:a7:b3:
>
> And here is the bug, the modulus dump contains 2056 bits, because it
> includes the 00 from the ASN.1 tag.

There's no bug, the leading 00 just indicates that the number is a
positive one...

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