Hi,

My apologies for this post, but I've just had very little luck in
getting information on working with Netscape Certificate Management
System (CMS), and I gather that a number of people that might be
familiar with it are here.

I'm working on a project where we need to retrieve/pull some information
from the CMS' "internal databases" (which are LDAP directories).  To
this end, I've installed CMS 6.2 (on a Linux machine), and so far, I can
pull some of what I need from the directory.  In particular, the
information that I really need is in the userCertificate attribute in
the ou=certificateRepository subtree, and in the requestAttributes in
the ou=ca subtree.

Actually, working with the userCertificate attribute is not so much of a
problem, as that looks like a base64 encoding of the issued
certificates, but working with the requestAttributes attribute has been
problematic.  It's also a base64 encoding of some kind of binary blob.
It looks like it has the original certificate request (base64-encoded)
embedded in it, but I haven't been able to determine how to "parse" the
overall blob to extract the "fields" within the blob (e.g.,
request_name, etc.).  
I've been looking at the CMS SDK for some hints, but frankly, I'm a bit
lost :(.

Again, my apologies if this post is off-topic.  I've been looking into
this for awhile, so if anyone can help, I'd very much appreciate it!!

Jim
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