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| author | Job Snijders <job@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2024-02-13 12:38:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Job Snijders <job@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2024-02-13 12:38:44 +0000 |
| commit | 2af97a0627e347928a0a032dcb1d303169dc4ddd (patch) | |
| tree | 98609d744341e9252a9dd52ae74f1437eda33751 /lib/libcrypto | |
| parent | 6252bf12fe6bd14965cc62c2f93203b16e81031c (diff) | |
Document a portability caveat about GeneralizedTime and UTCTime
OK tb@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libcrypto')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libcrypto/man/d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3 index 6d79ae403c7..d544af0fe42 100644 --- a/lib/libcrypto/man/d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3 +++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3,v 1.19 2022/09/12 14:36:09 tb Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3,v 1.20 2024/02/13 12:38:43 job Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> .\" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 12 2022 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 13 2024 $ .Dt D2I_ASN1_OCTET_STRING 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -452,3 +452,10 @@ and .Fn i2d_ASN1_GENERALSTRING first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.7 and have been available since .Ox 3.2 . +.Sh CAVEATS +Other implementations may accept or emit invalid DER encodings of +GeneralizedTime and UTCTime. +Portable applications should use +.Fn ASN1_STRING_length +to double check whether a given GeneralizedTime or UTCTime object is at least +15 or 13 bytes, respectively. |