[openssl-users] How to access some simple conversion functions - asn1_time_to_tm

[Nounou Dadoun]

Upon further investigation I've discovered that they're declared in asn1_locl.h but marked as: 
/* Internal ASN1 structures and functions: not for application use */

They seem to be generally useful and making them available would keep people's hands out of opaque data structures, any reason why they're not exposed?

Nou Dadoun
Senior Firmware Developer, Security Specialist

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Subject: [openssl-users] How to access some simple conversion functions - asn1_time_to_tm

Hi folks,

I'm trying to do some simple conversions (I need to push some certificate data across a soap interface).

I'm trying to do an ASN1 time conversion to tm (and eventually time_t but tm would be fine).

Earlier mailing list entries said that this was not available but I've now found:
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/crypto/asn1/a_time.c  which contains asn1_time_to_tm which also refers to https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/crypto/asn1/a_gentm.c  for asn1_generalizedtime_to_tm 

I could just copy and paste them but no sense in duplicating the wheel if there's a header file which exposes them, is there one?  Which releases of openssl have them?


The other conversions I need to do are key usage (I have a first cut at this) and extended key usage as a usage string and critical (boolean) flag; any similar openssl apis to retrieve those? Or pointers to sample code?

Thanks in advance for any pointers . N


Nou Dadoun
Senior Firmware Developer, Security Specialist


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