Fix the BIT STRING encoding of EC points or parameter seeds

(need to prevent the removal of trailing zero bits).

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

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  Changes between 0.9.8d and 0.9.8e  [XX xxx XXXX]
 
+  *) Fix the BIT STRING encoding generated by crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c
+     (within i2d_ECPrivateKey, i2d_ECPKParameters, i2d_ECParameters):
+     When a point or a seed is encoded in a BIT STRING, we need to
+     prevent the removal of trailing zero bits to get the proper DER
+     encoding.  (By default, crypto/asn1/a_bitstr.c assumes the case
+     of a NamedBitList, for which trailing 0 bits need to be removed.)
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
   *) Have SSL/TLS server implementation tolerate "mismatched" record
      protocol version while receiving ClientHello even if the
      ClientHello is fragmented.  (The server can't insist on the