On Mon, Jan 05, 2009, Giang Nguyen wrote:
>
> A side question: what exactly does this "which is wrong" comment
> mean? :)
>
> typedef struct x509_attributes_st
> ...
> int single; /* 0 for a set, 1 for a single item (which is wrong) */
> union {
> ...
> } X509_ATTRIBUTE;
>
This actually addresses both the questions. In the distant past some
applications encoded certificate requests incorrectly and/or required an
incorrect encoding. That is there to tolerate and/or generate such stuff.
Steve.
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