Commit 78a01b3f authored by russor's avatar russor Committed by Rich Salz
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zero pad DHE public key in ServerKeyExchange message for interop

Some versions of the Microsoft TLS stack have problems when the DHE public key
is encoded with fewer bytes than the DHE prime.

There's some public acknowledgement of the bug at these links:

https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/1253526/tls-serverkeyexchange-with-1024-dhe-may-encode-dh-y-as-127-bytes-breaking-internet-explorer-11
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/1104905/wininet-calculation-of-mac-in-tls-handshake-intermittently-fails-for-dhe-rsa-key-exchange



This encoding issue also causes the same errors with 2048-bit DHE, if the
public key is encoded in fewer than 256 bytes and includes the TLS stack on
Windows Phone 8.x.

Reviewed-by: default avatarMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1320)
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