1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> 3<title>Heimdalx509library: PKIX/X.509 Names</title> 4<link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 5<link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 6</head><body> 7<p> 8<a href="http://www.h5l.org/"><img src="http://www.h5l.org/keyhole-heimdal.png" alt="keyhole logo"/></a> 9</p> 10<!-- end of header marker --> 11<!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.5.6 --> 12<div class="navigation" id="top"> 13 <div class="tabs"> 14 <ul> 15 <li><a href="index.html"><span>Main Page</span></a></li> 16 <li><a href="pages.html"><span>Related Pages</span></a></li> 17 <li><a href="modules.html"><span>Modules</span></a></li> 18 </ul> 19 </div> 20</div> 21<div class="contents"> 22<h1><a class="anchor" name="page_name">PKIX/X.509 Names </a></h1>There are several names in PKIX/X.509, GeneralName and Name.<p> 23A Name consists of an ordered list of Relative Distinguished Names (RDN). Each RDN consists of an unordered list of typed strings. The types are defined by OID and have long and short description. For example id-at-commonName (2.5.4.3) have the long name CommonName and short name CN. The string itself can be of several encoding, UTF8, UTF16, Teltex string, etc. The type limit what encoding should be used.<p> 24GeneralName is a broader nametype that can contains al kind of stuff like Name, IP addresses, partial Name, etc.<p> 25Name is mapped into a hx509_name object.<p> 26Parse and string name into a hx509_name object with <a class="el" href="group__hx509__name.html#g0565f607a4e57d0911ee7081ad9548c5">hx509_parse_name()</a>, make it back into string representation with <a class="el" href="group__hx509__name.html#g1bd74b34e0aa88b083678ba231d38718">hx509_name_to_string()</a>.<p> 27Name string are defined rfc2253, rfc1779 and X.501.<p> 28See the library functions here: <a class="el" href="group__hx509__name.html">hx509 name functions</a> </div> 29<hr size="1"><address style="text-align: right;"><small> 30Generated on Wed Jan 11 14:07:40 2012 for Heimdalx509library by <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/index.html"><img src="doxygen.png" alt="doxygen" align="middle" border="0"></a> 1.5.6</small></address> 31</body> 32</html> 33
