Re: [PATCH] test: initial tests for smime

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes:

> For some reason PATCH 3/4 no longer applies after substituting in this
> patch as PATCH 1/4.

Ah, I guess I need to send the whole series again.

>
> But do we really need to test the message output of openssl?  It seems
> like it's broken, and if it ever gets fixed we'll need to change this
> test.

I think it's not so much broken as "canonical". There is some discussion
in the openssl-smime man page that pointed me to RFC5751
para 3.1.1

   MIME entities of major type "text" MUST have both their line endings
   and character set canonicalized.  The line ending MUST be the pair of
   characters <CR><LF>

> But all we really care about is that openssl is properly verifying the
> message, yes?  Why not just test that and forget about the rest of
> openssl's output?

Maybe it doesn't add too much as long as the message is using the "clear
signed" multipart/signed format. On the other hand there is an opaque
signed format (application/pkcs7-mime with Signeddata) too, where it
would be interesting to check for mangling of the text. Similarly, when
we add a similar test for encryption, I think we do want to check the
content, so we'll have to figure this out at some point.

Cheers,

d