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author | Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org> | 2000-09-09 00:59:37 +0000 |
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committer | Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org> | 2000-09-09 00:59:37 +0000 |
commit | c5a3b7e790285a30ab128673e05db77c9fcbbfbf (patch) | |
tree | 645e5db8286486e9c9bb3abf30472ac414c3ab79 /doc/openssl.txt | |
parent | a652ffc4b5748a22b291c230f1a9347b0d410ebc (diff) | |
download | openssl-c5a3b7e790285a30ab128673e05db77c9fcbbfbf.tar.gz |
Add BIO_read() (etc.) docs.
Add an ASN1 FAQ because I'm sick of answering it :-)
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diff --git a/doc/openssl.txt b/doc/openssl.txt index 880eace4da..e8c0cd7ea6 100644 --- a/doc/openssl.txt +++ b/doc/openssl.txt @@ -355,6 +355,24 @@ that would not make sense. It does support an additional issuer:copy option that will copy all the subject alternative name values from the issuer certificate (if possible). +Example: + +issuserAltName = issuer:copy + +Authority Info Access. + +The authority information access extension gives details about how to access +certain information relating to the CA. Its syntax is accessOID;location +where 'location' has the same syntax as subject alternative name (except +that email:copy is not supported). accessOID can be any valid OID but only +certain values are meaningful for example OCSP and caIssuers. OCSP gives the +location of an OCSP responder: this is used by Netscape PSM and other software. + +Example: + +authorityInfoAccess = OCSP;URI:http://ocsp.my.host/ +authorityInfoAccess = caIssuers;URI:http://my.ca/ca.html + CRL distribution points. This is a multi-valued extension that supports all the literal options of |