Commit 37dccd8f authored by Dr. Stephen Henson's avatar Dr. Stephen Henson
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Update X509v3 docs.

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@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ The email option include a special 'copy' value. This will automatically
include and email addresses contained in the certificate subject name in
the extension.

The IP address used in the B<IP> options can be in either IPv4 or IPv6 format.

The value of B<dirName> should point to a section containing the distinguished
name to use as a set of name value pairs. Multi values AVAs can be formed by
preceeding the name with a B<+> character.
@@ -175,6 +177,8 @@ ASN1_generate_nconf() format.
Examples:

 subjectAltName=email:copy,email:my@other.address,URI:http://my.url.here/
 subjectAltName=IP:192.168.7.1
 subjectAltName=IP:13::17
 subjectAltName=email:my@other.address,RID:1.2.3.4
 subjectAltName=otherName:1.2.3.4;UTF8:some other identifier

@@ -284,6 +288,25 @@ The B<ia5org> option changes the type of the I<organization> field. In RFC2459
it can only be of type DisplayText. In RFC3280 IA5Strring is also permissible.
Some software (for example some versions of MSIE) may require ia5org.

=head2 Policy Constraints

This is a multi-valued extension which consisting of the names
B<requireExplicitPolicy> or B<inhibitPolicyMapping> and a non negative intger
value. At least one component must be present.

Example:

 policyConstraints = requireExplicitPolicy:3


=head2 Inhibit Any Policy

This is a string extension whose value must be a non negative integer.

Example:

 inhibitAnyPolicy = 2


=head1 DEPRECATED EXTENSIONS