"Hellan,Kim KHE" wrote:
>
> I have a certificate with an X509v3 Certificate Policies extension.
> That extension contains a PolicyIdentifier "field" from which I want to
> extract the value.
>
> OpenSSL sees the X509v3 Certificate Policies extension as a "raw" extension,
> but how do I extract "field" values (like PolicyIdentifier or UserNotice)
> from such an extension?
>
You do this the same as any other extension. Use X509_get_ext_d2i(), see
the docs in doc/openssl.txt and the definitions of the relevant
structures in crypto/x509v3/x509v3.h
Steve.
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