[Opendnssec-develop] string handling

Roland van Rijswijk roland.vanrijswijk at surfnet.nl
Wed Apr 8 10:26:07 UTC 2009


Hi Jakob,

Jakob Schlyter wrote:
> On 8 apr 2009, at 08.52, Roland van Rijswijk wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to bail Rickard out a bit here. PKCS #11 uses a lot of
>> fixed-length strings, one of which is token label. And to make matters
>> even more confusing: the fixed-length strings in the PKCS #11 spec are
>> not NULL-terminated...
> 
> then we perhaps should write helper functions that translates PKCS#11
> fixed-length strings to/from null-terminated strings?

Something like that could be helpful, to prevent buffer overflows.

Cheers,

Roland


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