Re: found a weird bug....

[Kurt D. Z. <Ku...@Op...>]

At 02:05 PM 5/10/00 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:52:07PM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:
>> So 0x80 is -128.
>> 
>> This is a common encoding error made by Microsoft software. (Read 
>> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt and search for 
>> INTEGER.)
>> 
>> Are you using an MS server, Pythagoras?
>
>Given that the messageID is supposed to be non-negative. I wonder if it
>is worth adding a catch for negative ones and fix them.

You might consider putting something ABOVE the BER/DER level.
However, I cringe.  OpenLDAP and Mozilla SDKs do not do such
munging of peer provided values.

	Kurt