[openssl-dev] OpenSSL and certain PEM formats

[Sean Leonard]

On 12/17/2014 8:34 AM, Salz, Rich wrote:
>>> I am putting the finishing touches on an Internet-Draft for textual
>>> encodings of security structures
>>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-pkix-textual-09>, which
>>> OpenSSL refers to as the "PEM format".
> Cool.  You know why it's called PEM format, right?  (RFC 1115 et al)
Yes--that is discussed in the I-D. (Which renames it to "textual 
encoding", since it's actually not PEM...but I know that "PEM" is 
ingrained throughout OpenSSL so I won't advocate to this list to try to 
change the term in the software. :-) )

>
>>> #define PEM_STRING_X509_PAIR    "CERTIFICATE PAIR"
>>>
>>> #define PEM_STRING_SSL_SESSION    "SSL SESSION PARAMETERS"

Ok--so it's clear that these are not intended for interchange. I can 
cross them off the list. Thanks!

Sean