On Thu, Jul 10, 2008, Christopher Ivory wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to run a loop to parse the same p12 multple times to take some
> metrics. However, after the loop completes twice succesfully, PKCS12_parse
> fails. Any suggestions as to why this is happening?
>
> -Chris
>
> while(count > 0){
>
> /* Parse the PKCS #12 file with password */
>
> ca = (STACK_OF(X509) *)NULL;
> if (!PKCS12_parse(p12, "password", &pkey, &cert, &ca))
> {
> printf("Error parsing file\n");
> return -3;
> }
>
> /* Find PKey */
> if ( (EVP_PKEY *)NULL == pkey ){
> //printf("No private key!\n");
> }
> else{
> //printf("Private key found!\n");
> }
>
> /* Find Cert */
> if ( (X509 *)NULL == cert ){
> //printf("No X509!\n");
> }
> else{
> //printf("X509 found!\n");
> }
>
> /* Find CA */
> if ( (STACK_OF(X509) *)NULL == ca ){
> //printf("No CA!\n");
> }
> else{
> //printf("CA found!\n");
> }
> count--;
> EVP_PKEY_free(pkey);
> X509_free(cert);
> sk_X509_pop_free(ca, X509_free);
>
> }//end while

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Steve.
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