Re: CertificateFactory does not conforms to JAVA specifications

It should show up in the mirror shortly.

Regards,

David

On 8/4/19 7:45 pm, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
> 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] <mailto: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
>
>