Re: libopensc asn1 boolean handling

William Wanders wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> There seems to be a problem with handling / encoding / decoding
> values in libopensc that are stored as ASN1 boolean type.
> The higher level code represents these boolean values as integer
> values (0/1). However the encoding/decoding functions assume an
> u8 (unsigned char) type.
>
> For instance the authority boolean pkcs15-cert.c:
>
>         if (infop->authority)
>                 sc_format_asn1_entry(asn1_com_cert_attr + 1, (void *) 
> &infop->authority, NULL, 1);
>
> This will most likely cause problems on non little-endian systems.
> For testing purposes I replaced these constructs with something
> like which is a crude fix:
>         if (infop->authority) {
>                 u8 authority=infop->authority;
>                 sc_format_asn1_entry(asn1_com_cert_attr + 1, (void *) 
> &authority, NULL, 1);
>         }
> However, it would probably be better to use the u8 type to store
> the boolean values for the authority/native attributes, wouldn't it?

or to use 'int' in the asn.1 code ... thanks for the bug report I will
look at it.

Nils