[erlang-questions] Unrecognised OID -> fail to decode printableString

Simon MacMullen simon@REDACTED
Tue Apr 9 17:44:31 CEST 2013


With the attached certificate (provided by a user, apparently generated 
by "Red Hat Certificate System 7.3") and R16B:

1> rr(public_key).
[...]

2> {ok, File} = file:read_file("/path/to/cert.pem").
{ok,<<"-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----"...>>}

3> [{'Certificate', Cert, _}] = public_key:pem_decode(File).
[{'Certificate',<<48,130,3,178,...>>, not_encrypted}]

4> #'OTPCertificate'{tbsCertificate = #'OTPTBSCertificate'{subject = 
Subject}} = public_key:pkix_decode_cert(Cert, otp).
#'OTPCertificate'{...}

5> Subject.
{rdnSequence,
     [[#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{type = {2,5,4,6},value = "ES"}],
      [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
           type = {2,5,4,10},
           value = {printableString,"OMEL"}}],
      [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
           type = {2,5,4,11},
           value = {printableString,"OM"}}],
      [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
           type = {2,5,4,3},
           value = {printableString,"DSI PRUEBAS"}}],
      [#'AttributeTypeAndValue'{
           type = {0,9,2342,19200300,100,1,1},
           value = <<19,9,68,83,73,83,79,70,84,57,57>>}]]}

Umm, why has the last value not been decoded? According to my very very 
slack knowledge of BER, 19 = printableString, 9 is the length, and the 
rest is the string. And decoding it by hand gives the expected result.

So why does this value not get decoded?

Cheers, Simon

-- 
Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----


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