On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 02:23:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:23:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > So a developer at my company is having a problem.
> >
> > When our business partner signs a data object using Bouncy Castle
> > (PKCS#7 CMS), outputs PEM, and we use OpenSSL and read it in, that
> > works fine, but when we try to get the data out of it, we're getting a
> > null string.
> >
> > My hunch is that PKCS7_dataDecode(p7, NULL, NULL, NULL) is returning
> > null, but our library code is not throwing an exception.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with OpenSSL being unable to parse
> > PKCS#7 objects created by BouncyCastle?
>
> Problem is that remote peer is using DIGEST::SHA256.
>
> EVP_get_digestbynid() is failing, apparently lacking support for SHA256.
>
> I examined the latest OpenSSL distro and can't find any reference to
> SHA256 in object.h; does anyone know if this is supported?
You need 0.9.8 and SSL_library_init() is not sufficient, this adds only
the SSL algorithms, you need to also call:
void OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(void);
OR
void OpenSSL_add_all_digests(void);
--
Viktor.
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