[openssl-users] x509 manual

Dmitry Belyavsky beldmit at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 11:33:51 UTC 2018


Hello,

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7614

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 4:57 PM Dmitry Belyavsky <beldmit at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 4:02 PM Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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> I'll submit a pull request.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>>
>> Matt
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>> >
>> > ============
>> > 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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