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NAME
x509 - X.509 certificate handling
SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/x509.h>
DESCRIPTION
An X.509 certificate is a structured grouping of information about an
individual, a device, or anything one can imagine. A X.509 CRL
(certificate revocation list) is a tool to help determine if a
certificate is still valid. The exact definition of those can be found
in the X.509 document from ITU-T, or in RFC3280 from PKIX. In OpenSSL,
the type X509 is used to express such a certificate, and the type
X509_CRL is used to express a CRL.
A related structure is a certificate request, defined in PKCS#10 from
RSA Security, Inc, also reflected in RFC2896. In OpenSSL, the type
X509_REQ is used to express such a certificate request.
To handle some complex parts of a certificate, there are the types
X509_NAME (to express a certificate name), X509_ATTRIBUTE (to express a
certificate attributes), X509_EXTENSION (to express a certificate
extension) and a few more.
Finally, there's the supertype X509_INFO, which can contain a CRL, a
certificate and a corresponding private key.
X509_XXX, d2i_X509_XXX, and i2d_X509_XXX functions handle X.509
certificates, with some exceptions, shown below.
X509_CRL_XXX, d2i_X509_CRL_XXX, and i2d_X509_CRL_XXX functions handle
X.509 CRLs.
X509_REQ_XXX, d2i_X509_REQ_XXX, and i2d_X509_REQ_XXX functions handle
PKCS#10 certificate requests.
X509_NAME_XXX functions handle certificate names.
X509_ATTRIBUTE_XXX functions handle certificate attributes.
X509_EXTENSION_XXX functions handle certificate extensions.
SEE ALSO
X509_NAME_ENTRY_get_object(3), X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt(3),
X509_NAME_add_entry_by_NID(3), X509_NAME_print_ex(3), X509_NAME_new(3),
d2i_X509(3), d2i_X509_ALGOR(3), d2i_X509_CRL(3), d2i_X509_NAME(3),
d2i_X509_REQ(3), d2i_X509_SIG(3), X509v3(3), crypto(7)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003-2017 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
1.1.1g 2020-04-21 X509(7SSL)