I was tinkering with bc-csharp and comparing the results of a generated CMS by bc against one from .Net Core 'System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs' package and found some annoying differences.
Here are a sample of a signed CMS using .Net Core:
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And here are one from bc-csharp:
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Using some ASN1 viewer, you can see the one from bc has a NULL value for the Digest Algorithm, as seen below:
So, does this behavior is expected? There is some RFC definition for this value?
Removing this value from the bc-csharp library didn't break any test so I guess is an optional behavior.
Hello bc Team!
I was tinkering with bc-csharp and comparing the results of a generated CMS by bc against one from .Net Core 'System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs' package and found some annoying differences.
Here are a sample of a signed CMS using .Net Core:
MIIEZAYJKoZIhvcNAQcCoIIEVTCCBFECAQExDTALBglghkgBZQMEAgEwEwYJKoZIhvcNAQcBoAYEBFRFU1SgggKEMIICgDCCAWigAwIBAgIIZl81FSTJTXwwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQAwADAeFw0xNzEyMDIxMzIyNTJaFw0xOTEyMDIxMzIyNTJaMAAwggEiMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4IBDwAwggEKAoIBAQDP8mwzIUwbnnEW2muVuqQ0IuFLh/haSU4A71hmP5nglaEm0BN99nsXhTmcaGfaAxGOXPyjSLkKKhV3YaLl4kYW7eQ2PWeROBB48N5B2Gclyqu4ecYDrcSNebv8LXMpwPpcqjoxXOh6QqxYek/bIk6bduuXSJDlLww4/gOzmN+lURAjMzE7t0ZsqH7wh68XrIn9zZK637osmnhEA4eW3FIbfAvt7g7kc91zKbCkAb4752+VNlc5wB3cpPUn2XmzZp1+oYICbAkg7oPCRJNHfXxIU2RYmFtWj3nKhMXKncmV4FgOxKEzcU6Ewe3msSj8kA5nx2DAJxmDmzzgfTtEPiw1AgMBAAEwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQADggEBAEgredkp7OE4eLN407y7k3GwqbdeamGx9AqOdiGO9fNFCQEgJfHiaOpof4QMqI0I1CeB8+ne4EGJcl7A+XfJqcxS2e9v/tb17cOVSB5kWMQKb8CPPIQtKipsgP7W0u4FgsaVJXU2Qg5yYGGFHZ35scR4bFgTdt+eHDr1ogrM+yMtRSSktTFxGcFIDtSOnqYsN77qlJQnXsReITcr8IKAUQEMsFHAvq3+qpvjISpTx/q0h587Tc7eVkac/obh0Juc5uqt1WC3xOAk8MF5tz8HXV/0r1cI0DB47JPhDgaznLakSdTSU7i0VZqTIZ2PK3Fb1M+Jv2Ecr8vuiNO7qxXAnCYxggGeMIIBmgIBATAMMAACCGZfNRUkyU18MAsGCWCGSAFlAwQCAaBpMBgGCSqGSIb3DQEJAzELBgkqhkiG9w0BBwEwHAYJKoZIhvcNAQkFMQ8XDTE4MTIwMjEzMjI1M1owLwYJKoZIhvcNAQkEMSIEIJTuBZM15YflAcxL+QYT4IFPAKewi8fGSP2GWir2oizCMAsGCSqGSIb3DQEBAQSCAQCsU788W7gpnM4M1rX0Yc+U9N84RHcOLOk2yCrtcxH6L7iMusL1x7W6A/vk5xvBqwpGC9qnxue1yZeo/ZxCk7LosCBFcobVbbWQthzPWhkLQNgMo2t4z+Lz3lmH+mzYtgDclq8040tAqnEBzA0cR90+SLk72aqmJq2hTXvm71TATz2Krs0mm5On24U1UB34O1ujsbIaIknGleswT+EFIAgeDKB+Ntm3/qgxNtljqLVZKyrtfkOZuqWITLxQJcSommXfyl/uChNaERmNtb16yv0phm8RpNJD2hBu4Q/ipOKRDgtmRlxe2WoybpKX27V2YJROdbvlACd9ry+yuLkoU9kv
And here are one from bc-csharp:
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Using some ASN1 viewer, you can see the one from bc has a NULL value for the Digest Algorithm, as seen below:
So, does this behavior is expected? There is some RFC definition for this value?
Removing this value from the bc-csharp library didn't break any test so I guess is an optional behavior.
This is a similar question as one on issue #164.