Re: How to config or chang EVP headers

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Gao Yuhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

yhgao>  Does anyone knows how to change the EVP tags? Or is there a conf
yhgao> file to do this dynamically? The fact is that I want to change
yhgao> the cert request's tag. Many CA's now accept "-------BEGIN NEW
yhgao> CERTIFICATE REQUEST-------------" and "----------END NEW
yhgao> CERTIFICATE REQUEST------------". My users often forget to add
yhgao> the new when submiting there requests, which gives me much
yhgao> trouble. So, I thinks I'd better change it for good, but where? 

"-----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----" and "-----END NEW
CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----" are the old strings.  The newer strings are
"-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----" and "-----END CERTIFICATE
REQUEST-----".  At least according to OpenSSL source, where the first
variant is defined according the the macro PEM_STRING_X509_REQ_OLD.

BTW, is there a source (and RFC or something) for the correct
definition of those header strings?  I've had people ask me, and I've
found it hard to spot the authoritative document...

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