[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #3723] Patch to add short name "Email" to "emailAddress" object

[Kaduk, Ben via RT]

As a bit of follow-up here, it looks like the behavior changed from
using "Email" as a shortname for this attribute to just using the long
form "emailAddress" in commit  30911232c17f309f947156959fcbbf504c1b66fe
back in 2002.  The commit message there was pretty sparse, "Some more
OID enhancements", and there does not seem to be any particular
justification for that change.

However, we've been through a few release series since then, so perhaps
the current behavior is sufficiently "well-established" that it's not
worth reverting back to the historical behavior.

If that's the case, this ticket should probably be closed; if not, we
should be able to come up with a patch that applies cleanly to current
master.

-Ben


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