On Wed, Aug 11, 2004, Areg Alimian wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Thank you for the quick response! There are indeed lots of options on the > output format. Now if I just want to extract the common field string, do I > search for "CN=" prefix or is there a better way? >
Its not a good idea to attempt to parse any human readable output since the format may change over time. Your best option is to use X509_NAME_get_index_by_NID() (there's an example in the manual page for commonName) then X509_NAME_ENTRY_get_data() followed possibly by ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8(). Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
