As a bit of follow-up here, it looks like the behavior changed from using "Email" as a shortname for this attribute to just using the long form "emailAddress" in commit 30911232c17f309f947156959fcbbf504c1b66fe back in 2002. The commit message there was pretty sparse, "Some more OID enhancements", and there does not seem to be any particular justification for that change.
However, we've been through a few release series since then, so perhaps the current behavior is sufficiently "well-established" that it's not worth reverting back to the historical behavior. If that's the case, this ticket should probably be closed; if not, we should be able to come up with a patch that applies cleanly to current master. -Ben -- Ticket here: http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3723 Please log in as guest with password guest if prompted -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
