[openssl-users] PKCS7 and RSA_verify

[Sam Roberts]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 2:28 AM, ch <ch at coderhacks.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I thought the difference between PEM and DER is NOT ONLY a different
> encoding of the string?
> base64 vs. binary
>
> So to understand that clear please let me ask:
> If I convert a PEM-signature from base64 to binary then it is DER?

Yes. Well, technically it could be BER as well, but the main point is
PEM is just a wrapper to transport binary via email safe text, and you
can unwrap it if you want. PEM also includes a header, so you know if
the object is a cert, a key, an encrypted message, etc, meta-data
which is not known if you just have the binary chunk.


>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
> On 2017-09-28 11:23, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>>
>> On 28-09-17 01:19, ch wrote> If the pkcs-signature is binary encoded it
>> is not working for verifiying
>>>
>>> a SMIME-message in my experience with
>>> smime or cms-smime on the console. I tried to convert the binary ones to
>>> base64 but that does not everytime the trick.
>>
>> What you call "base64" is commonly known as "PEM" :-)
>>
>> You can get it to parse binary, but to do so you need to specify
>> "-inform der".
>>
>
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