new testsuite errors with gcrypt 1.5 and gnutls 2.17.1

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Jul 25 12:39:12 CEST 2011


On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:41, tmraz at redhat.com said:

> Hmm... wouldn't it be more proper to make the default MPI format for
> gcry_sexp_nth_mpi USG? Given the libgcrypt-1.4.x always behaved like
> this this is strictly said API/ABI break, regardless of what
> documentation says.

No, it didn't behaved like this.  The case with the leading zeroes is
more complex that just the GCRMPI_FMT_STD default.  It was a bug in
GnuPG to use the default.  Fortunately most users of Libgcrypt didn't
copied that bug.



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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