Parsing subject/issuer strings in X.509

[Viktor Dukhovni]

> On 22 Jul 2021, at 9:29 pm, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering what the function is that takes a string and returns X509_NAME with the attribute/value pairs of the parsed DN.

There is no such function in general, since the are many potential
string forms of X.509 names, not all of which are unambiguously
machine readable.

There are various functions for augmenting a partially built name
with an attribute-value pair, but the parsing of a string a list
of such attribute-value pairs is up to you. :-(

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	Viktor.