Em Thursday 23 April 2009 16:07:04 Dave Thompson escreveu:
> >     From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Rodrigo Canellas
> >     Sent: Wednesday, 22 April, 2009 09:30
> <snip long quote, including PKCS7 containing entity and CA certs>
> 
> >     I tried to use the other certificate in the PKCS#7 file, and this
> time 
> > I got an error that clearly tells me I am using a bad signature: 
> > "Error number '67596392', which means 
> > 'error:04077068:rsa routines:RSA_verify:bad signature', while verifying
> the signature", 
> > instead of the error "67567722", which is translated to: 
> > "error:0407006A:rsa routines:RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1:block type is
> not 01".
> 
> Do you mean you are using the pubkey from the second cert,
> with the signature value from the first cert as before?
> 
> >     Isn't it possible that the error "67567722" means something
> different from 
> > "> In this case you are using the wrong signature altogether.", 
> > as Dr. Stephen N. Henson pointed out?
> 
> Not really. As I said before, the signature in the entity cert
> is the signature OF THAT CERT'S BODY BY THE CA (KEY&) CERT.
> 
> Using cert1.signature and cert1.body.pubkey couldn't even 
> RSA-decrypt the signature as it failed PKCS1 checking,
> because that's not the right key for that sigvalue.
> 
> If you used cert1.signature and cert2.body.pubkey 
> then the signature will RSA-decrypt OK (no PKCS1 problem)
> but it will only match (and verify) the data in cert1.body 
> because that's the data it signed.
> 
> If you want to verify a signature of data by (the key in) cert1, 
> which is what you said you wanted, you have to use:
> - rawsigneddata = hash of the file (as you had before)
> - signaturevalue = THE SIGNATURE OF THE FILE
> - pubkey = (internalized) cert1.pubkey
> 
> If you want to verify cert1 itself (under cert2) use:
> - rawsigneddata = hash of the certinfo part of cert1
> - signaturevalue = cert1.signature
> - pubkey = (internalized) cert2.pubkey
> 
> I don't see how I say it any clearer than that.
> 
> 
> 
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I thank you all very much for your help!! It is working now!

And I apologize for the lack of basic knowledge... 


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