Commit 0bf340e1 authored by Daniel Bevenius's avatar Daniel Bevenius Committed by Ben Kaduk
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Suggestion for improvements to x509.pod 



This commit is a suggestion to hopefully improve x509.pod. I had to
re-read it the first time through and with these changes it reads a
little easier, and wondering if others agree.

Reviewed-by: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBen Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4924)
parent b12169ee

doc/man7/x509.pod

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Finally, there's the supertype X509_INFO, which can contain a CRL, a

certificate and a corresponding private key.



B<X509_>I<...>, B<d2i_X509_>I<...> and B<i2d_X509_>I<...> handle X.509

certificates, with some exceptions, shown below.

B<X509_>I<XXX>, B<d2i_X509_>I<XXX>, and B<i2d_X509_>I<XXX> functions

handle X.509 certificates, with some exceptions, shown below.



B<X509_CRL_>I<...>, B<d2i_X509_CRL_>I<...> and B<i2d_X509_CRL_>I<...>

handle X.509 CRLs.

B<X509_CRL_>I<XXX>, B<d2i_X509_CRL_>I<XXX>, and B<i2d_X509_CRL_>I<XXX>

functions handle X.509 CRLs.



B<X509_REQ_>I<...>, B<d2i_X509_REQ_>I<...> and B<i2d_X509_REQ_>I<...>

handle PKCS#10 certificate requests.

B<X509_REQ_>I<XXX>, B<d2i_X509_REQ_>I<XXX>, and B<i2d_X509_REQ_>I<XXX>

functions handle PKCS#10 certificate requests.



B<X509_NAME_>I<...> handle certificate names.

B<X509_NAME_>I<XXX> functions handle certificate names.



B<X509_ATTRIBUTE_>I<...> handle certificate attributes.

B<X509_ATTRIBUTE_>I<XXX> functions handle certificate attributes.



B<X509_EXTENSION_>I<...> handle certificate extensions.

B<X509_EXTENSION_>I<XXX> functions handle certificate extensions.



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