Re: attributecertificate extensions

2009-02-27 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009, Christian Weber wrote: > > The problem arises when it comes to parsing a dateOfBirth attribute, since is > of ASN1 > type GENERALIZEDTIME. All other are (more or less) strings. > > In OpenSSL GeneralName of Type GEN_DIRNAME is mapped to X509_NAME (see > x509v3.h) > which

attributecertificate extensions

2009-02-27 Thread Christian Weber
Dear OpenSSL users, lately I ran into a problem when trying to parse attributecertificates (ACs). ACs contain a sequence of attributes which look like x509v5 attributes. I've decided to use parts of the AC implementation from Daniel Díaz-Sánchez (downloable at http://www.it.uc3m.es/dds/swRelease/