Yes I've noticed this. Basically I am making an embedded client, and am
looking for every way possible to reduce code size, and obj_dat is very big.
I've more or less concluded that it is not worth the trouble, but 24k is
24k.
It surely should be possible to parse the essential info (Issuer, Subject
and public key info etc.) from a cert. without having all the machinery that
is in OpenSSL, but achieving that within the context of OpenSSL at present
would be a *lot* of work. Would you agree, have you any comments?

many thanks

Steve


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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003, steve thornton wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've been trying to edit and rebuild the ASN.1 database using objects.pl.
I
> am having problems understanding what is going on. As I understand it, the
> file to edit is objects.txt, but if I change this file in any way, then
> objects.pl no longer works. Can anybody please tell me what I should be
> doing here?
>

If the added lines use the correct syntax you should be OK as long as you
call
'make update'. You should be careful about deleting lines from objects.txt
because this will break binary compatibility with any applications that use
the NIDs directly: they'd need to be recompiled.

Steve.
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