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authorDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2002-11-15 00:26:07 +0000
committerDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2002-11-15 00:26:07 +0000
commitd78254aa2816f6c80220ada64f2231879003278b (patch)
tree1b6cdb8c70e2a888fd5a937729709a3860ff42cb /doc/crypto/ASN1_generate_nconf.pod
parentaf67804bef0a98882c3e4f5cb0764b078b1a7370 (diff)
Add SETWRAP modifier to ASN1 generate.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/crypto/ASN1_generate_nconf.pod')
-rw-r--r--doc/crypto/ASN1_generate_nconf.pod15
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/ASN1_generate_nconf.pod b/doc/crypto/ASN1_generate_nconf.pod
index c4c683b2a6..b4c89377f6 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/ASN1_generate_nconf.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/ASN1_generate_nconf.pod
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ is:
That is zero or more comma separated modifiers followed by a type
followed by an optional colon and a value. The formats of B<type>,
-B<value> and B<modifier> is explained below.
+B<value> and B<modifier> are explained below.
=head2 SUPPORTED TYPES
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ only the B<ASCII> format is permissible.
This encodes a boolean type. The B<value> string is mandatory and
should be B<TRUE> or B<FALSE>. Additionally B<TRUE>, B<true>, B<Y>,
-B<y>, B<YES>, B<yes>, B<FALSE> B<false>, B<N>, B<n>, B<NO> and B<no>
+B<y>, B<YES>, B<yes>, B<FALSE>, B<false>, B<N>, B<n>, B<NO> and B<no>
are acceptable.
=item B<NULL>
@@ -106,8 +106,9 @@ contents of this structure. The format can be B<ASCII> or B<UTF8>.
Formats the result as an ASN1 B<SEQUENCE> or B<SET> type. B<value>
should be a section name which will contain the contents. The
-field names are ignored and the values are in the generated
-string format. If B<value> is absent the the content will be empty.
+field names in the section are ignored and the values are in the
+generated string format. If B<value> is absent then an empty SEQUENCE
+will be encoded.
=back
@@ -135,10 +136,10 @@ the default is CONTEXT SPECIFIC.
This is the same as B<EXPLICIT> except IMPLICIT tagging is used
instead.
-=item B<OCTWRAP>, B<SEQWRAP>, B<BITWRAP>
+=item B<OCTWRAP>, B<SEQWRAP>, B<SETWRAP>, B<BITWRAP>
-The following structure is surrounded by an OCTET STRING, a SEQUENCE
-or a BIT STRING respectively. For a BIT STRING the number of unused
+The following structure is surrounded by an OCTET STRING, a SEQUENCE,
+a SET or a BIT STRING respectively. For a BIT STRING the number of unused
bits is set to zero.
=item B<FORMAT>