On Sep 8, 3:09 am, Nelson B <nel...@bolyard.me> wrote: > On 2010/09/07 17:08 PDT, tedx wrote: > > > I've hacked up something to try but I've now encountered a > > compilation error that I don't understand. Has anyone else seen this? > > nss_signing.c: In function ‘spl_nssVerifySignature’: > > nss_signing.c:172: error: storage size of ‘vfy_context’ isn’t known > > cc1: warnings being treated as errors > > nss_signing.c:172: error: unused variable ‘vfy_context’ > > I suggest you change your warning settings, so that warnings are no > longer treated as errors. > > NSS's type VFYContext is an opaque type. > seehttp://mxr.mozilla.org/security/ident?i=VFYContext > > You can never declare an instance of it. You can only declare a pointer > to it. You get a pointer to it by calling one of the VFY_CreateContext > variants. You destroy it by calling VFY_DestroyContext. You never get > to see what's inside it, or know how big it is. > > It appears that you tried to declare a VFYContext variable instance, > which was an error, but then you didn't use it, which was also an error. > The simplest solution is to get rid of it. :)
Oops left the * off the pointer declaration :0, Now I'll see if it works. I am however still concerned that I don't fully understand how to determine the signature algorithms. For testing I generated certificates but in the field someone else will be doing this and I have no visibility into how they do it. You mentioned earlier that some public keys support multiple signature algorithms. How do I determine which algorithms the public key I'm supports? How do I tell VFY about these multiple algorithms? Thanks again for your help. Ted -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
