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by Harry-64 :: Rate this Message:

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Hi!

Am 06.07.2009 um 23:10 schrieb Scott Neugroschl:

>> I'm trying to run the tools pemtrans (in order to import openSSL's  
>> RSA
>> private key and certificate into a cryptlib certificate store) on  
>> AIX.
>> The URL for the tool is http://toroid.org/ams/pemtrans (if anyone
>> looks for it)
>> The tool, linked against cryptlib 3.3.2 under Linux and/or Mac OS X
>> works fine, but under AIX 5.3 with GCC 4.2.0, the program segfaults
>> right at the call of the function "cryptSetAttributeString( pKey,
>> CRYPT_CTXINFO_KEY_COMPONENTS, &rsa, sizeof( CRYPT_PKCINFO_RSA ) );".
>> My first thought was it's all about the endianess of the openSSL
>> bignum values, but they seem to be OK, I've printed out all the
>> corresponding bits and bytes: they seem correct. I've traced down
>> cryptlib to find a problem, but I'm not involved so deeply (at some
>> point I was in some kernel and message queueing stuff of cryptlib
>> which I don't understand).
>> Does anyone have any clue why this program fails on AIX (which is
>> running on a RS/6000 CPU, perhaps it's really about the endianess)  
>> but
>> works on Linux and Mac OS X (both Intel platform)?
> [[SAN]]
> What error status are you getting as the return value from
> cryptSetAttributeString?
> And what is your key size?  I believe that 3.3.2 doesn't support 512-
> bit
> moduli.
There is no return value since the function doesn't return, it just  
throws a segmentation fault (and coredumps). This is an indication  
that a pointer isn't used correctly.
The key size is 1024 bits, but since the code works under Linux and  
Mac OS X, I assume this isn't a cryptlib limitation.

Regards,
Harry

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