At 11:33 AM 06/04/1999 , Stephen N. Henson wrote:
>Dave Clark wrote:
>>
>>
>> >There's lots of user's (well, developer's) habits, shortcuts..etc
>> >based on this concept already so it's unlikey to get changed easily.
>> >What for do you need length of der-decoded objects?
>>
>> After verifying an X509 cert chain, I want to write the DER-encoded
>> objects to separate disk files, using calls to the usual C RTL fwrite()
>> function which requires the length. Is there a more straightforward way
>> of doing this with OpenSSL?
>>
>> Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.
>>
>
>Err you can use i2d_X509_fp(fp, x509) to write the DER encoding to a
>FILE pointer directly given an X509 certificate structure. There is also
>a BIO version if you are using BIOs.
Yes, I realized that just a short time after sending out my mail message
;-) ... sorry for the wasted bandwidth.
- Dave
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