On Thu, May 09, 2002, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I tried to convert the following certificate (see below)
> to readable text using
>  openssl x509 -text -in [below] -noout | less
> 
> However, the x509v3 certificate extensions look like
> --- cutting here may damage your screen surface
> [...]
>                 Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
>         X509v3 extensions:
>             2.5.29.1: 
>                 0....[.p.ir.#Q~..M....r0p1+0)..U..."Copyright (c) 1997 Microsoft 
>Corp.1.0...U....Microsoft Corporation1!0...U....Microsoft Root 
>Authority......<<...>.c..@
>     Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption
> --- cutting here may damage your screen surface
> 
> which is, of course, not what I want.
> (To be honest, I want to look what extensions Microsoft (and others)
>  have in their certificates, and then integrate them into mine, too.)
> 
> 
[cert deleted]
> This goes wrong on both OpenBSD 3.1-current and the
> latest OpenSSL snapshot (0.9.8d or something-beta).
> 

That's the 'traditional' output format for unknown extensions. You can change
this behaviour using the -certopt command line switch. For example -certopt 
ext_parse will run unknown extensions through the ASN1 parser.

> Additionally I wanted to ask whether support for
> integrating "othername:" and IPv6 into the file
> crypto/x509v3/v3_alr.c is planned because I want
> to use them also.
> 

IPv6 is planned.

Othername is problematical: the actual format of the extension is
that it could contain an OID followed anything at all. It would be
possible to support simple strings or standard forms though.

Steve.
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