Re: segmentation fault on AIX with code working on Linux & Mac OS X
Harry <[email protected]>
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Hi! Am 06.07.2009 um 23:10 schrieb Scott Neugroschl: >> I'm trying to run the tools pemtrans (in order to import openSSL's >> RSA >> private key and certificate into a cryptlib certificate store) on >> AIX. >> The URL for the tool is http://toroid.org/ams/pemtrans (if anyone >> looks for it) >> The tool, linked against cryptlib 3.3.2 under Linux and/or Mac OS X >> works fine, but under AIX 5.3 with GCC 4.2.0, the program segfaults >> right at the call of the function "cryptSetAttributeString( pKey, >> CRYPT_CTXINFO_KEY_COMPONENTS, &rsa, sizeof( CRYPT_PKCINFO_RSA ) );". >> My first thought was it's all about the endianess of the openSSL >> bignum values, but they seem to be OK, I've printed out all the >> corresponding bits and bytes: they seem correct. I've traced down >> cryptlib to find a problem, but I'm not involved so deeply (at some >> point I was in some kernel and message queueing stuff of cryptlib >> which I don't understand). >> Does anyone have any clue why this program fails on AIX (which is >> running on a RS/6000 CPU, perhaps it's really about the endianess) >> but >> works on Linux and Mac OS X (both Intel platform)? > [[SAN]] > What error status are you getting as the return value from > cryptSetAttributeString? > And what is your key size? I believe that 3.3.2 doesn't support 512- > bit > moduli. There is no return value since the function doesn't return, it just throws a segmentation fault (and coredumps). This is an indication that a pointer isn't used correctly. The key size is 1024 bits, but since the code works under Linux and Mac OS X, I assume this isn't a cryptlib limitation. Regards, Harry _______________________________________________ Cryptlib mailing list [email protected] via Mail: [email protected] Archive: ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/crypt/cryptlib/archives/ http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib Posts from non-subscribed addresses are blocked to prevent spam, please subscribe in order to post messages.