On Wed, Dec 11, 2002, Paul Koster wrote:

> Are documentation and/or examples available for the X509 certificate
> handling library code in openssl?
> 
> On the openssl website the X509 documentation is lacking, just as it is in
> the distribution. The header files and source files are hardly documented.
> What's the reference to create programs that make use of the X509 code
> without reading all sources to find out all parameters and return values? I
> quickly scanned the programs in the apps directory, but they don't seem to
> give enough structured information although it's a start.
> 
> A second question I have is if there is work going on to add attribute
> certificate support to openssl, i.e. if RFC 3281 is being implemented.
> 

There is some more documentation in 0.9.7, see X509* manual pages. The
complete API isn't documented yet but there's a certificate creation demo in
demos/x509/mkcert.c

I've recently uploaded a highly experimental AC ASN1 modules to my 'play' area
on dev.openssl.org. AC support will be added at some point. At present we
could do with some AC examples, preferably ones which can be made public.

Steve.
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