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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8264864

Multiple byte tag not supported by ASN.1 encoding

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • P4
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • 17
    • security-libs
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    Description

      When the tag number (without class or P/C flags) is bigger than 30, it cannot be encoded into a single byte. Java is not aware of multiple byte tags and treats it as a single byte encoding, and thus interprets the whole BER/DER encoding wrongly.

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              weijun Weijun Wang
              weijun Weijun Wang
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