Then how to convert a Octet string to Readable format .
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:03 PM, <carlyo...@keycomm.co.uk> wrote: > >On Tue 03/04/12 12:46 PM , brajan balamurugan....@gmail.com sent: > > > >I want to know what is ASN1_OCTET_STRING and how to convert that into c++ > >string /char * > >-- > > An ASN1_OCTET_STRING is just another name for the ASN1_STRING type. > Assuming that the data you are trying to manipulate corresponds to an octet > boundary (it truly is just a collection of octets and not a bit string), > then you can simple treat it as a block of memory to be copied around. > > ASN1_STRING.length holds the length of the data and ASN1_STRING.data is a > pointer to the octet "string" ( I never liked the term string here because > C/C++ programmers always think of a string being NUL terminated whereas an > octet string is usually not). > > Carl > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org > -- Thanks & Regards Balamurugan Rajan,
