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authorHugo Landau <hlandau@openssl.org>2022-03-04 06:28:57 +0000
committerTomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>2022-03-07 09:34:58 +0100
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tree960ebdc1ff481af7800472a7add72839cad8721b
parent4bb34766d41489cfe95002e861f4a655727ebaf9 (diff)
downloadopenssl-d3602088603605f39993f03781163df2decf85e3.tar.gz
Document bug in openssl cms -binary
Documents a bug in openssl cms -binary for 1.1 whereby it cannot process input using LF line endings correctly. Binary input processing was reworked substantially for 3.0 and backporting these changes doesn't appear reasonable. Fixes #17797. Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/17810)
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@@ -719,6 +719,9 @@ the list of permitted ciphers in a database and only use those.
No revocation checking is done on the signer's certificate.
+The B<-binary> option does not work correctly when processing text input which
+(contrary to the S/MIME specification) uses LF rather than CRLF line endings.
+
=head1 HISTORY
The use of multiple B<-signer> options and the B<-resign> command were first