[Help-gnutls] Parsing certificate extensions and issuer alt names

Brad Hards bradh at frogmouth.net
Mon Jul 13 14:31:03 CEST 2009


On Monday 13 July 2009 21:16:24 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> Brad Hards wrote:
> > On Monday 13 July 2009 16:33:48 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> >> Actually I think it might be much easier to do that inside gnutls by
> >> extending get_subject_alt_name() to be able to accept the OID as
> >> parameter to parse the 2.5.29.18 extension as well. Then would be easy
> >> to submit a gnutls_x509_crt_get_issuer_alt_name that can be added to
> >> gnutls.
> >
> > OK. Will that require copyright assignment?
>
> Most probably it will. If you want to avoid that, the patch has to be
> few lines only (less than 15). Otherwise let me know and I will send you
> the required papers.
Urgh. This hurts every time I try it...

Lets at least get the process started, and I'll try to keep the patch trivial 
in any case.

Brad






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