[openssl-users] x509 manual

[Dmitry Belyavsky]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 4:02 PM Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 08/11/2018 12:44, Dmitry Belyavsky wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > can anybody clarify what for the abbreviations AVA and RDN stand for?
>
> RDN == Relative Distinguised Name
> AVA == Attribute Value Assertion
>
> An RDN consists of an unordered set of AVAs (but most frequently an RDN
> is made up of exactly one AVA, e.g. CN = "John"). A Distinguished Name
> (DN) is made up of a sequence of RDNs.
>
> That man page could probably do with some work to reduce the jargon.
>

I'll submit a pull request.

Thank you!


>
> Matt
>
>
> >
> > ============
> > sep_comma_plus, sep_comma_plus_space, sep_semi_plus_space, sep_multiline
> > These options determine the field separators. The first character is
> > between RDNs and the second between multiple AVAs (multiple AVAs are
> > very rare and their use is discouraged). The options ending in "space"
> > additionally place a space after the separator to make it more readable.
> > The sep_multiline uses a linefeed character for the RDN separator and a
> > spaced + for the AVA separator. It also indents the fields by four
> > characters. If no field separator is specified then sep_comma_plus_space
> > is used by default.
> > =============
> >
> > Thank you!
> > --
> > SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
> >
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