Re: How to change data structure of x.509 cert.?

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Lee Su-jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

mutantkr> Thank you for your response.
mutantkr> I want to change the type of variabe in "x509.h".
mutantkr> specially, subject type and issuer type..

Why?  The point with those structures is that they correspond as
closely as C permits to the ASN.1 definitions of those types.  This
has a lot of ramifications in the code, and will break if you do too
rough changes.  Adding fields *may* work, but removing is definitely
something that will make the code go "eeeeeep".  I'm surprised you
could compile OpenSSL after those changes!

I definitely suggest that if you want something that looks like a X509
but isn't exactly a X509, you build your own types separately from
X509 and the functions you need around it.

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