[openssl-dev] OpenSSL 1.1 X509_NAME issues

[Howard Chu]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Thursday, January 21, 2016 5:58 PM +0000 Howard Chu <hyc at highlandsun.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In OpenLDAP we reference X509_NAME->bytes->data directly, we want the DER
>> bytes which we then pass thru our own DN validator/formatter. This no
>> longer works with OpenSSL 1.1 and I don't see any provided method to
>> return the DER bytes. I don't want a malloc'd copy, I just want read-only
>> access to the bytes already cached inside the X509_NAME structure.
>>
>> for reference:
>> https://github.com/openldap/openldap/blob/master/libraries/libldap/tls_o.
>> c#L448
>> https://github.com/openldap/openldap/blob/master/libraries/libldap/tls_o.
>> c#L475
>
> Any update on this request?

I sent a patch to rt at openssl.org a couple hours ago. Hasn't shown up yet.

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