On Thu, Sep 11, 2003, Edward Lewis wrote:

> I'd like to use subjectAlternateName:otherName.  From what I can 
> tell, in this code in 097a:
> 
> #                case GEN_OTHERNAME:
> #                X509V3_add_value("othername","<unsupported>", &ret);
> #                break;
> 
> it's not supported.
> 
> Is that correct?  Does anyone know (off-list replies encouraged) of 
> an implementation that does support it?
> 
> PS - yeah, I suppose I *could* try to add the Ada code in there to do 
> it.  Oh, what, it's C?  (Now you know why I want an implementation. 
> ;))

It is supported in 0.9.8-dev to some extent: in the sense that you can put
arbitrary data in there using the mini-ASN1 compiler. 

*However* the meaning of 'support' in the context of otherName is somewhat
ambiguous. The actual value field can contain anything depending on the name
field. At some point (situation permitting) I may add some code to parse or
print its contents automatically. That's a bit complex though because doing it
properly would need some non trivial modification of the extension code.

Steve.
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