1*2175Sjp161948=pod 2*2175Sjp161948 3*2175Sjp161948=head1 NAME 4*2175Sjp161948 5*2175Sjp161948X509_new, X509_free - X509 certificate ASN1 allocation functions 6*2175Sjp161948 7*2175Sjp161948=head1 SYNOPSIS 8*2175Sjp161948 9*2175Sjp161948 X509 *X509_new(void); 10*2175Sjp161948 void X509_free(X509 *a); 11*2175Sjp161948 12*2175Sjp161948=head1 DESCRIPTION 13*2175Sjp161948 14*2175Sjp161948The X509 ASN1 allocation routines, allocate and free an 15*2175Sjp161948X509 structure, which represents an X509 certificate. 16*2175Sjp161948 17*2175Sjp161948X509_new() allocates and initializes a X509 structure. 18*2175Sjp161948 19*2175Sjp161948X509_free() frees up the B<X509> structure B<a>. 20*2175Sjp161948 21*2175Sjp161948=head1 RETURN VALUES 22*2175Sjp161948 23*2175Sjp161948If the allocation fails, X509_new() returns B<NULL> and sets an error 24*2175Sjp161948code that can be obtained by L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>. 25*2175Sjp161948Otherwise it returns a pointer to the newly allocated structure. 26*2175Sjp161948 27*2175Sjp161948X509_free() returns no value. 28*2175Sjp161948 29*2175Sjp161948=head1 SEE ALSO 30*2175Sjp161948 31*2175Sjp161948L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>, L<d2i_X509(3)|d2i_X509(3)> 32*2175Sjp161948 33*2175Sjp161948=head1 HISTORY 34*2175Sjp161948 35*2175Sjp161948X509_new() and X509_free() are available in all versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL. 36*2175Sjp161948 37*2175Sjp161948=cut 38