On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 2:28 AM, ch <ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > I thought the difference between PEM and DER is NOT ONLY a different > encoding of the string? > base64 vs. binary > > So to understand that clear please let me ask: > If I convert a PEM-signature from base64 to binary then it is DER? Yes. Well, technically it could be BER as well, but the main point is PEM is just a wrapper to transport binary via email safe text, and you can unwrap it if you want. PEM also includes a header, so you know if the object is a cert, a key, an encrypted message, etc, meta-data which is not known if you just have the binary chunk. > > Thanks > Chris > > On 2017-09-28 11:23, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> >> On 28-09-17 01:19, ch wrote> If the pkcs-signature is binary encoded it >> is not working for verifiying >>> >>> a SMIME-message in my experience with >>> smime or cms-smime on the console. I tried to convert the binary ones to >>> base64 but that does not everytime the trick. >> >> What you call "base64" is commonly known as "PEM" :-) >> >> You can get it to parse binary, but to do so you need to specify >> "-inform der". >> > > -- > openssl-users mailing list > To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users -- openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users
