[openssl-dev] [EXTERNAL] Re: PKCS12 safecontents bag type deviation from spec

[Sands, Daniel]

On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 14:50 +0000, Salz, Rich via openssl-dev wrote:
> OpenSSL defines it as a SET OF and the spec says it’s a SEQUENCE
> OF.  Ouch!  Will that cause interop problems if we change it?  (I
> don’t remember the DER encoding rules)
> 
> 
> 

Well, a SEQUENCE uses tag 16 while a SET uses tag 17, according to a
quick reference I found.  So that could be an interoperability concern.
 But maybe this is the first actual use of nested safecontents, since
this difference flew under the radar for so long :)