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gnutls_dh_get_prime_bits() returns wrong values
From: |
Peter Hendrickson |
Subject: |
gnutls_dh_get_prime_bits() returns wrong values |
Date: |
28 May 2009 18:25:31 -0000 |
When I run gnutls_dh_get_prime_bits() it returns a value 8 bits larger
than the actual length of the prime. For example, if I load a
Diffie-Hellman parameter with 4096 bits, I am told after the
negotiation that the prime was 4104 bits long.
It looks like it's getting something from dh->prime.size and
multiplying it by 8 and that prime.size is one larger than is correct.
In the debugger I watched gnutls_dh_params_import_pkcs3() load the
parameters and it looks like one-larger prime.size is getting set in
the process of ASN.1 parsing and MPI construction. Probably that's
correct and dh_get_prime_bits() should be doing a little more work to
report the right value. For one thing, if it's reporting the number
of bits, it can't multiply an integer by 8 and always be correct.
Peter
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