[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Wed Jan 22 11:51:52 2003]:

> Hi,
> 
> would it be possible to implement a slightly more general
> X500 name compare in OpenSSL ? Currently OpenSSL accepts only
> strings with the same encoding type (i.e. OpenSSL compares
> only PRINTABLE with PRINTABLE and not PRINTABLE with T61STRING,
> although every PRINTABLE string is also a T61STRING). Could
> OpenSSL be modified (see attached patch) to allow a comparison
> between PRINTABLE and T61STRING, IA5STRING or UTF8STRING
> (<=> with supersets of PRINTABLE) ? Comments are welcome.
> 

I've committed an equivalent patch to 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 which is designed
to handle some CAs that reecode DNs to UTF8 without issuing name
rollover certificates.

Steve.

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