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authorDr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com>2020-12-24 11:25:47 +0100
committerDr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net>2021-01-13 11:53:15 +0100
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Add X509V3_set_issuer_pkey, needed for AKID of self-issued not self-signed cert
Also clean up some related auxiliary functions and documentation Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13658)
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=head1 NAME
-ASN1_generate_nconf, ASN1_generate_v3 - ASN1 generation functions
+ASN1_generate_nconf, ASN1_generate_v3 - ASN1 string generation functions
=head1 SYNOPSIS
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ ASN1_generate_nconf, ASN1_generate_v3 - ASN1 generation functions
These functions generate the ASN1 encoding of a string
in an B<ASN1_TYPE> structure.
-I<str> contains the string to encode I<nconf> or I<cnf> contains
+I<str> contains the string to encode. I<nconf> or I<cnf> contains
the optional configuration information where additional strings
will be read from. I<nconf> will typically come from a config
-file whereas I<cnf> is obtained from an B<X509V3_CTX> structure
+file whereas I<cnf> is obtained from an B<X509V3_CTX> structure,
which will typically be used by X509 v3 certificate extension
functions. I<cnf> or I<nconf> can be set to NULL if no additional
configuration will be used.