On Sat, Nov 06, 2010, Martin Bolet wrote: > I just tested, whether the BER-encoding is preserved if I do not alter > any of the contents. Unfortunately, it seems as if the encoding is not > preserved. I did the following: > > d2i_PKCS7_bio(file, &p7); > > and then directly > > i2d_PKCS7_bio(file2, p7); > > again. "file" was BER-encoded using e.g. an Octet String in > constructed form with inifinite length, which was DER-encoded in > primitive form using definite length in the output. > Is there a way how I can circumvent the reencoding? > > Best regards, > Martin > > (BTW: I'm using 0.9.8o, maybe it's different in 1.0.0?) >
Is this a PKCS#7 structure with the encapsulated content not being of type data? Will the CMS routines work instead? Perhaps not because that's one area of incompatibility between the two formats. If you can use CMS then that uses an OCTET STRING to store the encoding of the encapsulated content and makes no attempt to decode it. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
