1ae771770SStanislav Sedov<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2ae771770SStanislav Sedov<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> 3ae771770SStanislav Sedov<title>Heimdalx509library: PKIX/X.509 Names</title> 4ae771770SStanislav Sedov<link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 5ae771770SStanislav Sedov<link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 6ae771770SStanislav Sedov</head><body> 7ae771770SStanislav Sedov<p> 8ae771770SStanislav Sedov<a href="http://www.h5l.org/"><img src="http://www.h5l.org/keyhole-heimdal.png" alt="keyhole logo"/></a> 9ae771770SStanislav Sedov</p> 10ae771770SStanislav Sedov<!-- end of header marker --> 11ae771770SStanislav Sedov<!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.5.6 --> 12ae771770SStanislav Sedov<div class="navigation" id="top"> 13ae771770SStanislav Sedov <div class="tabs"> 14ae771770SStanislav Sedov <ul> 15ae771770SStanislav Sedov <li><a href="index.html"><span>Main Page</span></a></li> 16ae771770SStanislav Sedov <li><a href="pages.html"><span>Related Pages</span></a></li> 17ae771770SStanislav Sedov <li><a href="modules.html"><span>Modules</span></a></li> 18ae771770SStanislav Sedov </ul> 19ae771770SStanislav Sedov </div> 20ae771770SStanislav Sedov</div> 21ae771770SStanislav Sedov<div class="contents"> 22ae771770SStanislav Sedov<h1><a class="anchor" name="page_name">PKIX/X.509 Names </a></h1>There are several names in PKIX/X.509, GeneralName and Name.<p> 23ae771770SStanislav SedovA Name consists of an ordered list of Relative Distinguished Names (RDN). Each RDN consists of an unordered list of typed strings. The types are defined by OID and have long and short description. For example id-at-commonName (2.5.4.3) have the long name CommonName and short name CN. The string itself can be of several encoding, UTF8, UTF16, Teltex string, etc. The type limit what encoding should be used.<p> 24ae771770SStanislav SedovGeneralName is a broader nametype that can contains al kind of stuff like Name, IP addresses, partial Name, etc.<p> 25ae771770SStanislav SedovName is mapped into a hx509_name object.<p> 26ae771770SStanislav SedovParse and string name into a hx509_name object with <a class="el" href="group__hx509__name.html#g0565f607a4e57d0911ee7081ad9548c5">hx509_parse_name()</a>, make it back into string representation with <a class="el" href="group__hx509__name.html#g1bd74b34e0aa88b083678ba231d38718">hx509_name_to_string()</a>.<p> 27ae771770SStanislav SedovName string are defined rfc2253, rfc1779 and X.501.<p> 28ae771770SStanislav SedovSee the library functions here: <a class="el" href="group__hx509__name.html">hx509 name functions</a> </div> 29ae771770SStanislav Sedov<hr size="1"><address style="text-align: right;"><small> 30*cf771f22SStanislav SedovGenerated on Wed Jan 11 14:07:40 2012 for Heimdalx509library by <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/index.html"><img src="doxygen.png" alt="doxygen" align="middle" border="0"></a> 1.5.6</small></address> 31ae771770SStanislav Sedov</body> 32ae771770SStanislav Sedov</html> 33
