On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Alexander Komyagin <a...@mongodb.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > While working on parsing x509 certificate subjects, I have noticed that > emailAddress is added to the subject with "/" instead of ",". Is it the > expected behavior? I was not able to find RFC that would regulate that, but > it seems a bit strange. The RDNs that make up the DN are recommended in RFC 4514.
I think the commas and slashes are a presentation detail by the software that displays or prints the DN. I think (but I'm not certain) that earlier versions of the RFC was a little looser. The BNF grammars changed a bit between the versions. Jeff ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
