[[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thu Sep  5 09:23:59 2002]:

> 
> This patch is a replacement for RT/openssl.org: Ticket #237.  Please
> retract Ticket #237.
> 
> The following patch provides basic support for Subject Directory
> Attributes, which are defined in the x509 spec (RFC 2459), but are
> currently unsupported by OpenSSL.  openssl.cnf entries for Subject
> Directory Attributes should be formed as follows:
> 
> subjectDirectoryAttribute = type:<type-objectname>, \
> value:<value-objectname|DER:<hexstring>>
> 
> Example:
> 
> subjectDirectoryAttributes =
>    type:corestreet,value:DER:3081cd3081ca3081ca...
> 
> An OID for "Corestreet Credential Validation" has also been added to
> provide support for Dr. Silvio Micali's certificate validation
>    mechanism.
> 
> The follow diff is relative to the 9/03/02 snapshot.
> 
> 

The new ASN1 generator in OpenSSL 0.9.8 should be able to do this using
a human readable syntax.

See ASN1_generate_nconf(3) and doc/openssl.txt in 0.9.8

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