On Tue, 14 May 2002, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Hi everyone, > Openssl smime is not able to handle big files ( We tried with a 500MB file). It >doesn't report any error message. > > On stepping through the source, we found that it's failing in OPENSSL_malloc. > > However openssl enc works fine with files larger than 2 GB. > > There is a bug in one of those pkcs7_ routines. Is there a workaround for this >problem?
Doesn't the PKCS#7 routines keep all the data in memory? I think that's how it's done. If that's correct, then you should consider adding more memory (either physical or swap) to your system. -- Erwann ABALEA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - RSA PGP Key ID: 0x2D0EABD5 ----- moi je veux bien lire les FAQ, mais c'est pareil, je sait pas ou elle sont... Ne faudrait il pas faire une FAQ qui dit ou sont les FAQs ? -+- M.D. in Guide du Neuneu Usenet : Oû sont les FAAAAQ -+- ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
