certtool --inraw/--outraw

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Mon Apr 28 21:36:49 CEST 2008


Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Nikos, regarding this patch:
> 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnutls.git;a=commitdiff;h=734f6dd83932f57fda56bb322e64f565ac30dc77
> 
> It replaces --inder/--outder with --inraw/--outraw in the certtool man
> page, but the code just add new --inraw/--outraw.  What's the background
> here?  We can't remove the --inder/--outder parameter now, they are too
> widely used and documented.
> Is this about openpgp stuff, which aren't DER encoded?

I added --inraw, --outraw to have common options in openpgp and x.509
cases. The --inder and --outder options were left for compatibility, but
removed from the manpage in favor of the new options.

regards,
Nikos





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