On Mon, Feb 11, 2008, Paruchuri, Kranti Kumar wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>      This is Kranti Kumar Paruchuri, working with CA, India. 
> 
> I have a question regarding the OpenSSL-V3. I have been working on the
> X.509 certificate CRL Distribution Point extension. Our application
> requires supporting the "GENERALNAMES, "Relative Distinguished Names",
> "Reasons" and also the "cRLIssuer" which are part of the X.509
> certificate Distribution Point. But from the source code, I understand
> that it only supports the "GENERALNAMES" as it was mentioned in the
> "v3_crld.c" file and in function 
> i2v_crld(X509V3_EXT_METHOD *method, STACK_OF(DIST_POINT) *crld,
> STACK_OF(CONF_VALUE) *exts)
> 
> Is my understanding correct? Could you please help us know if there is
> another version of OpenSSL which is supporting the "Relative
> Distinguished Names", "Reasons" and "cRLIssuer" of a Distribution Point?
> If not when the support is expected for the same? 
> 
> I would also welcome if any pointers/links are provided for the
> information provided.
> 

The development snapshots of OpenSSL (which will be 0.9.9) allow the setting
of all these fields but not 0.9.8 or earlier.

See:

http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/x509v3_config.html#CRL_distribution_points_

Steve.
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