[Pkg-silc-devel] Bug#444685: additional information

[Juraj Bednar]

The problem is probably within lib/silcapputil/silcapputil.c in function
silc_create_pk_identifier which returns NULL, because
silc_pkcs_silc_encode_identifier returns null, when username is shorter
than three characters (two-character usernames are quite common in our
environment).

the good behaviour would be to allow user to specify identifier.

Also, when nothing else, at least write WHY exactly did this fail, so
one does not have to look through source code and use debugger to find
out the exact cause of the problem.

So my proposed fix:

Either remove the bogus limitation of username length (I don't
understand what exactly is wrong with one or two character usernames) or
allow user to specify their identifier when this check fails.