[openssl-users] Trouble porting code to OpenSSL 1.1

Jakob Bohm jb-openssl at wisemo.com
Tue Jun 21 21:41:11 UTC 2016


On 18/06/2016 18:02, Marc Heuse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with porting OpenSSL code from 1.0 to 1.1.
> Please do not complain that it does not look like it make sense what
> this code does here - complain to Microsoft who implements certs with
> RDP non-standard ...
>
> The goal of the following code is to change the ASN.1 value of the
> signature algorithm in a certificate.
>
>    // OpenSSL 1.0 code, well, really written already when 0.9 was there
>
>    nid = OBJ_obj2nid(cert->cert_info->key->algor->algorithm);
>    if ((nid == NID_md5WithRSAEncryption) || (nid ==
> NID_shaWithRSAEncryption)) {
>      ASN1_OBJECT_free(cert->cert_info->key->algor->algorithm);
>      cert->cert_info->key->algor->algorithm = OBJ_nid2obj(NID_rsaEncryption);
>    }
>
>
>    // OpenSSL 1.1 code
>
>    nid = X509_get_signature_nid(cert);
>    if ((nid == NID_md5WithRSAEncryption) || (nid ==
> NID_shaWithRSAEncryption)) {
>      ... how to set the algorithm in the cert to NID_rsaEncryption in
> OpenSSL v1.1.x?
>
>
> Any help how to implement this with the new 1.1 functions is highly
> appreciated :)
>
Strangely, when I look at certificates generated by the "openssl ca"
utility, they already say "Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption",
where did you get certificates that specified "md5WithRSAEncryption"
or "shaWithRsaEncryption" as the subject public key algorithm?

Enjoy

Jakob
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