Re: LibreSSL and ASN.1 encodings

2014-05-31 Thread D. Spindel
Some historical anecdotes: T.61 was proposed in 93. Utf8 later the same year. utf8 was recommended from 94. 2004 OpenSSL caught up with the recommendation, and decided to go against it to be compatible with Netscape Navigator. Which at that time had a massive 2% of the market. 2005 The behaviou

Re: LibreSSL and ASN.1 encodings

2014-05-31 Thread Bob Beck
Done. Thanks for the giggle. I needed it today. -Bob On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 07:20:56PM +0200, D. Spindel wrote: > a short plea from someone who just had to dig through OpenSSL code and > figuring out why I was getting T.61 strings instead of UTF8Strings. > > Would you _please_ and kindly cha

LibreSSL and ASN.1 encodings

2014-05-31 Thread D. Spindel
a short plea from someone who just had to dig through OpenSSL code and figuring out why I was getting T.61 strings instead of UTF8Strings. Would you _please_ and kindly change the default of global_mask in crypto/asn1/a_strnid.c from 0xL to B_ASN1_UTF8STRING OpenSSL upstream has had the