RE: message with a mlExpansionHistory attribute

[email protected] (Peter Gutmann) Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:52:29 (NZDT)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smime-examples
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Pawling, John" <[email protected]> writes:
 
>Getronics Government Solutions generated the section 11.5 sample message 
>included in the "Examples of S/MIME Messages" I-D.  We agree that there 
>should not be a trailing zero present in the GeneralizedTime value as per the 
>X.690 DER rules.  We will generate a new message with a corrected 
>GeneralizedTime value for inclusion in the next version of the Examples I-D.
 
[Snip]
 
>   749 30  234:                 SEQUENCE {
>   752 30  231:                   SEQUENCE {
>   755 04    7:                     OCTET STRING
>              :                   35 37 33 38 32 39 39
>   764 18   16:                     GeneralizedTime '199903111044330Z'
>   782 A1  201:                     [1] {
>   785 30  198:                       SEQUENCE {
>   788 A4   97:                         [4] {
        
Actually dumpasn1 should complain about that but from looking at the code I've 
only got it enabled for UTCTime, not GeneralizedTime.  This will be fixed Real 
Soon Now (If I could get a copy of the original PDU I can use it to check that 
dumpasn1 will catch this).  This also looks like output from a slightly older 
version, newer versions will identify the ASCII string hidden in the OCTET 
STRING and display it as text rather than hex.
 
Peter.