- Krithiga
Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Sunil Ashok Rashinkar wrote:Hi Henrik Nordstrom,There is more people than only me in this list.. I am probably not at all the most qualified for this question.SSL_write(sslConnection, data + bytesTransmitted, bytesToSend); This SSL_write fucntion fails and returns 5 as error code. Error code is retrieved by --> nError = SSL_get_error(sslConnection, bytesSent); Error string is retrieved by --> ERR_error_string(nError, str); Erro string which i get is --> error:00000005::lib(0) :func(0) : bad asn1 object headerI am guessing wildly here, but perhaps some non-SSL data was received from the other end of the connection? Or maybe the error occured earlier during SSL_connect/accept? Have you tried OpenSSL PROG FAQ 5: I've called 'some function' and it fails, why? <url:http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#PROG5>. Maybe this gives a better description of the error(s) which may have occured.I also read your friends comments regarding solution of this problem, which said...char buf[20]; RAND_seed(&buf,sizeof buf) ;He did the above change in the code and got it working.No idea.. if it was shortage of randomness you should get another error I think. At least I did when I was short of randomness/entropy in one of my applications. In any case the above two lines is a terribly bad randomness seeding method giving a false sense of randomness entropy information to OpenSSL, quite likely degrading the cryptographic security of OpenSSL considerably. If you have a windows application then you should probably be using RAND_window() from the main event loop. I am not a Windows programmer so I am of limited help on how to do this. The platforms I develop on all have /dev/urandom which makes life with randomness requirements considerably easier. Regards Henrik ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
