Re: Retreive public key and DN from a request

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: "Atle Sandvold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

asandvold> I would like to extract the public key and the DN elements
asandvold> from a PKCS#10 file.  How can I do this with openssl (or
asandvold> other packages) ? 
asandvold> 
asandvold> I'm looking for something with the same functionality as
asandvold> e.g X509_get_subject_name()

If you look in x509.h, you'll find a number of functions and macros
handling a type called X509_REQ.  Among them, there is
X509_REQ_get_subject_name().

Search, and you shall find.  Use "X509_REQ" wisely...

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