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Re: [TLS] BoringSSL's TLS test suite

Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org> Sun, 25 September 2016 21:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] BoringSSL's TLS test suite
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Henrick Hellström <henrick@streamsec.se> wrote:
> Have you noticed that BoringSSL seems to abort handshakes with an
> illegal_parameter alert, if the server certificate uses the standard
> compliant (albeit highly unusual) DER encoding of NULL OPTIONAL as the empty
> string, instead of the non-standard but ubiquitous 0x05 0x00 encoding?

In what location do you have an omitted NULL? (I suspect that
BoringSSL's behaviour is deliberate, but I can't say for sure without
knowing which case it is.)


Cheers

AGL

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