On Sun, Jul 02, 2017, Salz, Rich via openssl-dev wrote: > > I tried using OBJ_create() with NULL or an empty string for the OID, but > > currently it checks that the given OID is actually a valid one. Is there > > any workaround to avoid this other than issuing my own OID? > > No. Just get an OID ARC, such as from the IETF Enterprise MIB [it's free] > and throw it away.
If you create object without an OID it stops it being encoded or decoded as an ASN1_OBJECT: this is sometimes useful. Unfortunately there is currently no way to do this with OBJ_create(). Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
