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Re: [cp-patches] PATCH: fix PrivateKeyUsagePeriod parsing
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Michael Koch |
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Re: [cp-patches] PATCH: fix PrivateKeyUsagePeriod parsing |
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Mon, 18 Apr 2005 05:29:55 +0200 |
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 07:51:51PM -0700, Casey Marshall wrote:
> Hi list;
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> Tom Fitzsimmons pointed out a flaw in the X.509 parsing code that
> handles the 'privateKeyUsagePeriod' extension, which is encoded as a
> pair of two optional dates, but aren't tagged as such in ASN.1. So the
> existing code naively tries to cast the result as a Date, which fails
> because the type of the value field can't be determined at that point.
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> Ok to commit?
Sure, you are the expert for this.
Michael
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