[openssl-dev] X509_cmp_time (possible) bug

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Sep 11 14:43:27 UTC 2017


On Mon 2017-09-11 14:16:11 +0000, Short, Todd via openssl-dev wrote:
> Yes, it’s annoying, but it’s historic. I looked into changing this at one point.

I think Dimitry's point was that the documentation doesn't match the
implementation because of the flexibility of strcmp's defined return
code.

However, i think commit 80770da39ebba0101079477611b7ce2f426653c5 ("X509
time: tighten validation per RFC 5280") resolves Dmitry's concerns.

        --dkg


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