Bug #6234: Incomplete code in ossl_pkey_ec.c

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p290

[rubysubmit (Ruby Submit)]

File: ext\openssl\ossl_pkey_ec.c

} else {
BIO *in = ossl_obj2bio(arg1);

/* BUG: finish me */

        BIO_free(in);

        if (point == NULL) {
            ossl_raise(eEC_POINT, "unknown type for 2nd arg");
        }
    }

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet)

Assigning to emboss too. Thanks.

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[MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet)]

I'm afraid I'm not entirely sure what the original intention was there.
Is technorama still around? Could we ask her/him?

If not my guess is that the intention was to read a point from OctetString
representation as described in section 2.3.4 in [1]. However, this would
probably also require an additional parameter that indicates the point
compression form. It would be a valuable addition, as well as having a
method for the inverse operation, ECPoint#to_octet_string. If we can't
reach technorama I will implement these two options. Or did the OP have
something else in mind?

[1] http://www.secg.org/collateral/sec1_final.pdf

[zzak (zzak _)]

• Assignee changed from MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet) to 7150

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

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