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| author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2021-07-12 15:32:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net> | 2022-01-04 17:04:44 +0100 |
| commit | acef3b2f84b22c7cdb3cbc02fc8fc7b76cbb6ea7 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c5a0f1af16ee2297e1f43a8fcf1c5c370739b6f /doc/man3 | |
| parent | 97b8c859c64bc60fcf5bb27ed51489c81fde41b3 (diff) | |
X509_cmp.pod: Point out that the X509_NAME_cmp() arguments may be NULL
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16050)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/X509_cmp.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_cmp.pod b/doc/man3/X509_cmp.pod index 272a9d259e..6294314abb 100644 --- a/doc/man3/X509_cmp.pod +++ b/doc/man3/X509_cmp.pod @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ I<a> and I<b>. The comparison is based on the B<memcmp> result of the hash values of two B<X509> objects and the canonical (DER) encoding values. The X509_NAME_cmp() function compares two B<X509_NAME> objects indicated by -parameters I<a> and I<b>. The comparison is based on the B<memcmp> result of the +parameters I<a> and I<b>, any of which may be NULL. +The comparison is based on the B<memcmp> result of the canonical (DER) encoding values of the two objects using L<i2d_X509_NAME(3)>. This procedure adheres to the matching rules for Distinguished Names (DN) given in RFC 4517 section 4.2.15 and RFC 5280 section 7.1. |