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

Ingela Andin ingela.andin@REDACTED
Wed Apr 10 11:32:59 CEST 2013


Hi!

The "otp" strategy decodes as much as possible of the certificate that
it recognizes
it recurses and decodes "manually" more than the standard ASN-1
decoding "pkix" mode does. But proably it does not know about this
oid. Maybe the ASN-1 compiler could
behave differently but someone else needs to answer that.

Regards Ingela Erlang/OTP team - Ericsson AB


2013/4/9, Simon MacMullen <simon@REDACTED>:
> 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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