[openssl-users] Certificate format question?

[Scott Neugroschl]

>On Sept 24, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
>> On Sep 24, 2018, at 6:25 PM, Scott Neugroschl <scott_n at xypro.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I tried googling, but couldn’t find an answer to this…
>>  
>> I came across a certificate that had some text garbage before the ---- BEGIN CERTIFICATE ---- line.
>>  
>> I know that the cert is defined as the data between the delimiters.  Do the specs say anything about data before the BEGIN
>>delimiter?  Would a certificate with such data be valid?  I know OpenSSL accepts such a cert, but is this an extension, or is it 

>>explicitly permitted by the standards/specifications?

>https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7468#section-2

Thanks, Viktor, appreciated.