On Tue, Nov 25, 2003, Michael Bell wrote:

> 
> -subj in ca.c is important for me. So I start reading the code. I dug in 
> req.c and it looks for me like mval signals as the last argument to 
> X509_NAME_add_entry_by_NID that this is not a new RDN only an addition 
> to the last RDN. Does this be correct?
> 

Yes that's correct.

> If yes then I start fixing "-subj" for ca.c or better I'm fixing 
> do_subject which is used by req.c too.
> 

There's possibly a problem in that it would change the meaning of the '+'
character which might break existing use of -subj or even permit some
malicious use. So I'd suggest that any new behaviour should only be enabled
with a command line swicth.

Steve.
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