It is correct, the KDF is expecting the characters 'A' through 'F'
here. This is what is specified in the RFC:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4253#section-7.2
That line of code ought to have cast to (char *) or type defined simply
as char, but it is essentially correct.
Pauli
On 26/3/22 5:11 am, Kory Hamzeh wrote:
Hi All,
If you look at the example SSH KDF code here:
https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man7/EVP_KDF-SSHKDF.html
Specifically, these lines:
*p++ = OSSL_PARAM_construct_utf8_string(OSSL_KDF_PARAM_SSHKDF_TYPE,
&type, sizeof(type));
The variable ‘type’ is defined as a “const char”, so an 8 bit integer. The compiler spits out a warning on that line. Is the example code correct?
I wonder if it should be calling OSSL_PARAM_construct_int() and ‘type’
changed to ‘int’?
Thanks,
Kory
