"+" bug in mac_key?

Michael 'hacker' Krelin hacker at klever.net
Wed Aug 3 01:11:51 PDT 2005


> >There is nothing wrong with it, but this is not how OpenSSL packs
> >its bignums. I think it is possible to accept both with and without high
> >bit set. It's not a big deal to prepend zero either.
> 
> I started a topic about that a few weeks back. The spec specifies signed 
> integers instead of unsigned so they have to be zero padded to preserve the 
> sign (even though in the case of OpenID signed vs unsigned doesn't actually 
> make any difference).

I must have overlooked that in specs.

Love,
H


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