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16*9b05507aSschwarze.Dd $Mdocdate: October 19 2021 $
17ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Dt X509_INFO_NEW 3
18ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Os
19ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Sh NAME
20ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Nm X509_INFO_new ,
21ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Nm X509_INFO_free
22ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Nd X.509 certificate wrapper object
23ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Sh SYNOPSIS
24ea47bfb8Sschwarze.In openssl/x509.h
25ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Ft X509_INFO *
26ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Fn X509_INFO_new void
27ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Ft void
28ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Fn X509_INFO_free "X509_INFO *info"
29ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Sh DESCRIPTION
30ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Vt X509_INFO
31ea47bfb8Sschwarzeis a reference-counted wrapper object storing a pointer to an X.509
32ea47bfb8Sschwarzecertificate together with pointers to the associated private key
33ea47bfb8Sschwarzeand to an associated certificate revocation list.
34ea47bfb8SschwarzeIt is for example used internally by
35ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Xr X509_load_cert_crl_file 3 .
36ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Pp
37ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Fn X509_INFO_new
38ea47bfb8Sschwarzeallocates and initializes an empty
39ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Vt X509_INFO
40ea47bfb8Sschwarzeobject and sets its reference count to 1.
41ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Pp
42ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Fn X509_INFO_free
43ea47bfb8Sschwarzedecrements the reference count of
44ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Fa info
45ea47bfb8Sschwarzeby 1.
46ea47bfb8SschwarzeIf the reference count reaches 0, it frees all referenced objects
47ea47bfb8Sschwarzeas well as the storage needed for
48ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Fa info
49ea47bfb8Sschwarzeitself.
50ea47bfb8SschwarzeIf
51ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Fa info
52ea47bfb8Sschwarzeis a
53ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Dv NULL
54ea47bfb8Sschwarzepointer, no action occurs.
55ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Sh RETURN VALUES
56ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Fn X509_INFO_new
57ea47bfb8Sschwarzereturns the newly allocated
58ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Vt X509_INFO
59ea47bfb8Sschwarzeobject or
60ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Dv NULL
61ea47bfb8Sschwarzeif an error occurs.
62ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Sh SEE ALSO
637e22e691Sschwarze.Xr PEM_X509_INFO_read 3 ,
64ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Xr X509_CRL_new 3 ,
65*9b05507aSschwarze.Xr X509_new 3 ,
66*9b05507aSschwarze.Xr X509_PKEY_new 3
67ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Sh HISTORY
68ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Fn X509_INFO_new
69ea47bfb8Sschwarzeand
70ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Fn X509_INFO_free
71ea47bfb8Sschwarzefirst appeared in SSLeay 0.5.1 and have been available since
72ea47bfb8Sschwarze.Ox 2.4 .
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