Any consensus from the core folks on this?

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> X509_NAME_oneline takes an X509 name and returns
> it as a set of slash-separated components:
>       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> X509_NAME_print tries to turn it into a comma-separated
> list:
>       c=us, o=certco, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The problem is that it's test for "are we about to hit
> another RDN" is a hack (line 376-382 of t_x509.c) that
> looks for /X= or /XX= where X is an uppercase ASCII
> letter. And, of course /email fails.
> 
> It's a problem because there are certs (old[?] Verisign
> certs, if I recall correctly) that have "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as
> the value of the CN
> component!
> 
> It seems to me that a good solution is to have both
> functions call down to a common print function that
> gets a "syntax" switch.  I'd be willing to write
> that if there's interest.
>      /r$

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