On Mon, Mar 24, 2003, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003, Naomaru Itoi wrote:
> 
> OpenSSL 0.9.8 supports generation of otherName. Printing of otherName is
> another matter, to handle this fully would require code being added to every
> single otherName OID because *anything* can be in there.
> 
> It should asn1parse otherName I suppose but that would require quite a bit of
> revision to the extension code.
> 

Hmmm, that could've been a bit clearer. What I mean is that OpenSSL may at
some point run an otherName extension through its generic ASN1 parser (as used
by the asn1parse tool). It might also allow plugin support for otherName OIDs
so code can be written to handle each as a special case with appropriate
friendly handling.

Steve.
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