[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#828593: virtualbox: FTBFS with openssl 1.1.0

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior sebastian at breakpoint.cc
Mon Sep 12 20:10:34 UTC 2016


On 2016-09-10 01:30:13 [+0200], Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> The code seems to be doing: The signature algorithm was
> sha1WithRSAEncryption, so the public key they passed us must
> have been an RSA key. But from what I understand, what the code
> really did was: it's an EVP_sha1(), it's an an RSA key. But if it
> was EVP_sha256(), it was an unknown key type. What they do might
> have worked in the past by accident. But it clearly doesn't work
> properly.
> 
> I don't think there is a way of doing what they want to do.  They
> should really just pass the type of the public key to the
> function.

I think I've found it a few lines above.

VirtualBox hackers! Could you please take a look at this? It should
compile against openssl 1.1.0 and 1.0.2h and work.

> Kurt

Sebastian
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