Re: CertificateFactory does not conforms to JAVA specifications

Hi Massimiliano,

It's on my list, it will be probably be another couple of weeks before I
get to it though (there's a couple of other things on the list I have to
still deal with).

Apologies,

David

On 15/3/19 11:26 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
> Hello guys!
>
> About one month ago, I opened this issue:
>
>   * https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/issues/457 - CertificateFactory
>     does not conforms to specifications
>
> And I created a PR that should solve/mitigate the issue:
>
>   * https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/pull/459
>
> But I never received any comment.
>
> We already discussed this issue some year ago here
> <http://bouncy-castle.1462172.n4.nabble.com/Problem-in-the-bouncycastle-CertificateFactory-implementation-td4655904.html>
>
> I really believe it should be fixed. As it is, it creates incoherent
> results when passing from any compliant provider (Sun, IAIK, etc) to
> BouncyCastle.
>
> Code relying to the fact that bad input should raise an exception,
> could start failing with a NullPointerException if changing the
> provider to BouncyCastle.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Regards,
> Massimiliano