Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) bugs

[Matt Rogers]

Justin Karneges is the person to contact: justin at affinix.com is valid  
email address if i remember correctly.

I've taken the liberty of forwarding your email to him.

Matt

On Aug 11, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Kjell Rune Skaaraas wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I'm looking to come in contact with someone regarding the Qt  
> Cryptographic Architecture library in KDE. I couldn't find any  
> "Contact us" on either of the websites:
>
>
> http://api.kde.org/kdesupport-api/kdesupport-apidocs/qca/html/
>
> http://delta.affinix.com/qca/
>
>
> There seems to be two different issues related to the  
> CertificateAuthority class in the latest 2.0.1 version. First, there  
> is a function "createCertificate" in the header and documentation  
> that is not in the source and causes linker error if you try to use  
> it. However, I am also unable to use the "signRequest" function to  
> successfully sign a certificate. I have made a simple test case and  
> since it's basicly one file I'll quote it here.
>
>
> #include <QtCrypto>
> #include <QtDebug>
>
> TestCaSigning::TestCaSigning()
> {
>   QCA::Initializer init;
>   QCA::PrivateKey caKey = QCA::KeyGenerator().createRSA( 512 );
>   QCA::CertificateOptions caOpts;
>   caOpts.setAsCA();
>   caOpts.setValidityPeriod( QDateTime( QDate(2008, 1, 1) ),  
> QDateTime( QDate(2008, 12, 31) ) );
>   QCA::Certificate caCert = QCA::Certificate( caOpts, caKey );
>   QCA::CertificateAuthority ca( caCert, caKey, QString() );
>
>   QCA::PrivateKey testKey = QCA::KeyGenerator().createRSA( 512 );
>   QCA::CertificateOptions testOpts;
>   testOpts.setValidityPeriod( QDateTime( QDate(2008, 1, 1) ),  
> QDateTime( QDate(2008, 12, 31) ) );
>   QCA::CertificateRequest testReq =  
> QCA::CertificateRequest( testOpts, testKey );
>   QCA::Certificate testCert = ca.signRequest( testReq,  
> QDateTime( QDate( 2008, 12, 31 ) ) );
>
>   qDebug() << __FUNCTION__ << testCert.isSelfSigned() <<  
> testCert.subjectKeyId().toHex() << testCert.issuerKeyId().toHex();
>
>   // Leads to linker error:
>   //ca.createCertificate( testReq.subjectPublicKey(), testOpts );
> }
>
> The result of this is that I get a self-signed certificate?! Either  
> getting a null certificate (something went wrong) or a signed  
> certificate would be fine, but the result does not make any sense to  
> me. Hopefully one of you can help me or at least point me to whom I  
> should be asking/reporting this to.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Kjell Rune Skaaraas
>
>
>
> Alt i ett. Få Yahoo! Mail med adressekartotek, kalender og notisblokk.

Matt

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