Re: CertificateFactory does not conforms to JAVA specifications

Hi David,
I see a comment from you here https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/pull/459 saying
that it has been merged, however I see the `PR` as closed (instead of
merged) and searching through the repo I don't see any of the PR's changes
into `master`.

Cheers,
Massimiliano

Il giorno sab 16 mar 2019 alle ore 20:59 David Hook <dgh-rTAZ0PM/[email protected]>
ha scritto:

>
> 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
>
>
>