Re: found a weird bug....

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 06:19:29AM -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> 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.

Ah, but it is a return of the value I send. So just avoid values where
value & 0x80808080 is non-zero

Graham.