First, the serious stuff. Version 0.2 of my libpkixpq library is up at
http://www.dimensional.com/~bgiles. It mostly renames asn1_integer to
hugeint and x509_name to principal, and adds a slew of operators to each
type. This should make it possible to create indices on either type,
although I haven't actually verified this yet.
Now the silly stuff. I am perplexed to announce the first (and probably
final) release of a Netscape 4.x plugin that uses the OpenSSL library
to display the contents of an X.509 cert. You can embed a cert into
another document with the EMBED tag:
<embed type="application/x-dump-x509" width=700 height=500
src="file:/tmp/test.pem">
The plugin should also catch any content with this MIME type, but
I haven't actually verified this.
Since I'm lazy, this plugin requires the Motif (or Lesstif) library.
It should be trivial to convert to another toolkit, it would be a lot
more work to implement a scrolling text window in Xlib.
This plugin is not intended for serious use, nor as a tongue-in-cheek
suggestion for people can't figure out "openssl x509 -noout -text".
It's purely proof-of-concept - can you create a plugin that links in
both Motif (or Qt/Gnome/whatever) and OpenSSL and have it actually
do something?
What's a serious use for this type of plugin? Perhaps something that
establishes a secure connection to a streaming media server with
sensitive information, e.g., a "real media player" that has realtime
stock quotes instead of the time-delayed quotes available to the
public. Or perhaps a plugin that only displays content with a valid
S/MIME signature.
I've posted this announcement to -users in case people have ideas about
possible applications, and to -dev so it can be added to the contrib
directory.
This package is available at the same URL.
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