thanks for the information thanks gkgodava
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, > 27 May 2004 12:53:52 -0600 (MDT), "Ganesh Godavari" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > gkgodava> i am not able to find sufficient information OID and NID? > gkgodava> what does NID stands for? > > NID is an internal number that OpenSSL makes use of, and is basically an > integer to refer to a OID (which is much longer). > > gkgodava> documentation available at docs/crypto/OBJ_nid2obj.html > gkgodava> tells "The ASN1 object utility functions process ASN1_OBJECT > gkgodava> structures which are a representation of the ASN1 OBJECT > gkgodava> IDENTIFIER (OID) type." > gkgodava> > gkgodava> is OID and NID are assigned by a standards community? > > OIDs arcs (you could call the prefixes) are assigned by a number of > standards communities. NIDs are assigned automatically within the build > of OpenSSL. > > gkgodava> is there a OID or NID that i can use for attribute > gkgodava> certificates? > > Dunno, I haven't looked too much at those critters yet... > > ----- > Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. > See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. > > -- > Richard Levitte \ Tunnlandsvägen 52 \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ S-168 36 BROMMA \ T: +46-708-26 53 44 > \ SWEDEN \ > Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ > > Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. See > <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
