Hans Werner Strube wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> when an alias is added to an x509 certificate by -setalias, this works if
> the output is in PEM format but is ignored in DER format. When a PEM
> certificate containing an alias is later converted to DER, the alias is
> stripped. Is this normal or a bug?
> 

Its expected behaviour. There wasn't any standard format I could see for
packaging a certificate and additional auxilliary information needed so
I made one up with some different PEM headers.

Not supporting this in DER format is largely to avoid interop problems:
nothing other than OpenSSL would be able to interpret it.

Steve.
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