-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor Duchovni
Sent: 2008年1月17日 11:30
To: openssl-users@openssl.org
Subject: Re: About certificate sha1 thumbprint

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:14:28AM +0800, Hou, LiangX wrote:

> No. I try to convert binary digest to hexadecimal strings outside and compare 
> it with what is generated by the command-line tool. And I find they are 
> different. The strange thing is that the thumbprint generated by my 
> X509_digest begins with zero. That may be something wrong. Is it?
> 

>What's wrong with zero? The raw digest is a set of pseudo-random bytes,
>of none of the bytes or nibbles were ever zero, that would be strong
>evidence that the hash is flawed.

>You have not posted the relevant code, and your problem descriptions
>are vague. If you want help you need to post clear problem descriptions
>and a complete example constiting of a cert.pem file and code with
>working Makefile that computes the "wrong" digest for the certificate
>(different from what is reported by "openssl x509 -sha1 -fingerprint
-noout -in cert.pem").

-- 
        Viktor.

Viktor, I found my problem. It was the wrong conversion from the raw thumbprint 
data to the hexadecimal string in my code which caused this problem. Now it 
works. There is no need to post the code to bother your attention any more. I 
really appreciate your help.
        Liang
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