Kah – The Developer

In A Certificate’s Subject, Issuer and its keyUsage, a certificate was read into memory and its subject and issuer names and its key usage extension contents were outputted. Here, the subject alternate names and extended key usage names are extracted. Both of these extensions are defined in RFC 3280 as a SEQUENCE of something. In [...]

The first code that I ever wrote using OpenSSL was one that read the certificate into memory and examined the values of the keyUsage extension. In fact, OpenSSL provides the functionality to extract all of the information from an X509 certificate that you possibly want. In this tutorial, an X509 certificate is read into memory [...]

I first came across OpenSSL when I first started work at Motorola in Perth, Western Australia. In their own words, the OpenSSL project …