There are a few places these things are specified -- in the names given to the OID arcs, which means looking in SSL, TLS, CMS, S/MIME, etc. OpenSSL has a pretty complete list of those. Another source is in the URI's for things like XMLDSig and XMLEncryption.
Your approach of having an 'alias table' is probably the best way to go. /r$ -- Principal Security Engineer Akamai Technology Cambridge, MA ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org