alternative for x509 "name" field

[Tomas Mraz]

On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 14:39 +0530, shiva kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Compared to OpenSSL 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 and above, in  struct
> x509_st , char *name field has been removed, what is the alternative
> for it and what is the impact? can anyone please answer the query? 

Hi,
although the name field was present in 1.0.2 it was not used for
anything. So there was no point in keeping it once the structure was
made non-public in 1.1.0.

Regards,
-- 
Tomáš Mráz
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