Re: Removing X509 extensions

2001-09-12 Thread Oscar Jacobsson
Dr S N Henson wrote: Extensions are also used for security purposes, for example to indicate whether a certificate is a valid CA certificate and to prevent end user certificates being able to masquerade as CAs. I would definitely consider the ability to constrain issued certificates through

Re: Removing X509 extensions

2001-09-12 Thread Gleison Santos
In fact, ASN1 routines have access to X509_EXTENSION structure while executing parsing routines. But I free that information after it. We know about security constraints envolving removing X509v3 but code size is really a important matter for us. Gleison Dr S N Henson wrote: Gleison Santos

Re: Removing X509 extensions

2001-09-12 Thread Dr S N Henson
Gleison Santos wrote: In fact, ASN1 routines have access to X509_EXTENSION structure while executing parsing routines. But I free that information after it. Can you be more specific about that? Do you free the information after the ASN1 code has parsed the structure? If so then when the

Removing X509 extensions

2001-09-11 Thread Gleison Santos
Hi, all. In a project I'm working now we don't want to use any X509 extensions, basically due to binary size limitation. I've commented a lot a source code, removing any reference to X509_EXTENSION structure. But during server certificate validation I get a error while validating the second

Re: Removing X509 extensions

2001-09-11 Thread Dr S N Henson
Gleison Santos wrote: Hi, all. In a project I'm working now we don't want to use any X509 extensions, basically due to binary size limitation. I've commented a lot a source code, removing any reference to X509_EXTENSION structure. But during server certificate validation I get a error