if I rework this to an 'ext-only' option, would this be acceptable? I
would prefer to improve the usability.

On 9/25/09, Stephen Henson via RT <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [[email protected] - Fri Sep 25 17:54:07 2009]:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The following patch adds a new option, '-ext_print' to the x509
>> program which prints out the x509v3 extensions included in a
>> certificate. The use case for this patch is that for users which use
>> the command line program to parse and analyze certificates, it is
>> useful to get the raw extensions to evaluate whether the certificate
>> is correct for it's planned usage. The only way to programmatically do
>> this without my patch is to print the entire certificate using the
>> '-text' option then use a scripting tool such as perl or sed/awk to
>> extract the extensions from the output.
>>
>
> There is a way to do this using the -certopt option to turn off all
> options other than extensions as follows:
>
> openssl x509 -in ca-cert.pem -text -noout -certopt
> no_header,no_sigdump,no_version,no_subject,no_issuer,no_validity,no_serial,no_pubkey,
> no_signame
>
> This is of course rather cumbersome and could be made cleaner with
> something like ext_only.
>
> Steve.
> --
> Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
> Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org
>
>


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