Hmm then perhaps I'm expecting the wong thing to be coming out. I'm using
PKCS7_encrypt followed by SMIME_write_PKCS7. So the data is base64 encoded
and in S/MIME Format.

I just want to get this in a format that I can return as a string that's
null terminated. So the app can use it as a string.

Mike Luich

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:54 PM, David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>
> > Hello everyone, here's what's driving me nuts.
> > I'm sure i'm missing something simple, but why isn't the
> > encrypted message coming out of
> > " BIO_get_mem_data(out, &enc_msg); " Null terminated ?
>
> > Mike Luich
>
> Why should it be? It's not a string, it's a block of arbitrary data.
>
> Besides, what would be the point in nul-terminating a block of data that
> may
> already contains any number of zero bytes in it?
>
> DS
>
>
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