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Title "OBJ_nid2obj 3" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
way too many mistakes in technical documents.
OBJ_nid2obj, OBJ_nid2ln, OBJ_nid2sn, OBJ_obj2nid, OBJ_txt2nid, OBJ_ln2nid, OBJ_sn2nid, OBJ_cmp, OBJ_dup, OBJ_txt2obj, OBJ_obj2txt, OBJ_create, OBJ_cleanup - ASN1 object utility functions Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 1 #include <openssl/objects.h> \& ASN1_OBJECT * OBJ_nid2obj(int n); const char * OBJ_nid2ln(int n); const char * OBJ_nid2sn(int n); \& int OBJ_obj2nid(const ASN1_OBJECT *o); int OBJ_ln2nid(const char *ln); int OBJ_sn2nid(const char *sn); \& int OBJ_txt2nid(const char *s); \& ASN1_OBJECT * OBJ_txt2obj(const char *s, int no_name); int OBJ_obj2txt(char *buf, int buf_len, const ASN1_OBJECT *a, int no_name); \& int OBJ_cmp(const ASN1_OBJECT *a,const ASN1_OBJECT *b); ASN1_OBJECT * OBJ_dup(const ASN1_OBJECT *o); \& int OBJ_create(const char *oid,const char *sn,const char *ln); void OBJ_cleanup(void); .Ve Header "DESCRIPTION" The \s-1ASN1\s0 object utility functions process \s-1ASN1_OBJECT\s0 structures which are a representation of the \s-1ASN1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER\s0 (\s-1OID\s0) type. For convenience, OIDs are usually represented in source code as numeric identifiers, or \s-1NID\s0s. OpenSSL has an internal table of OIDs that are generated when the library is built, and their corresponding NIDs are available as defined constants. For the functions below, application code should treat all returned values \*(-- OIDs, NIDs, or names \*(-- as constants.

\fBOBJ_nid2obj(), OBJ_nid2ln() and OBJ_nid2sn() convert the \s-1NID\s0 n to an \s-1ASN1_OBJECT\s0 structure, its long name and its short name respectively, or \s-1NULL\s0 if an error occurred.

\fBOBJ_obj2nid(), OBJ_ln2nid(), OBJ_sn2nid() return the corresponding \s-1NID\s0 for the object o, the long name <ln> or the short name <sn> respectively or NID_undef if an error occurred.

\fBOBJ_txt2nid() returns \s-1NID\s0 corresponding to text string <s>. s can be a long name, a short name or the numerical respresentation of an object.

\fBOBJ_txt2obj() converts the text string s into an \s-1ASN1_OBJECT\s0 structure. If no_name is 0 then long names and short names will be interpreted as well as numerical forms. If no_name is 1 only the numerical form is acceptable.

\fBOBJ_obj2txt() converts the \s-1ASN1_OBJECT\s0 a into a textual representation. The representation is written as a null terminated string to buf at most buf_len bytes are written, truncating the result if necessary. The total amount of space required is returned. If no_name is 0 then if the object has a long or short name then that will be used, otherwise the numerical form will be used. If no_name is 1 then the numerical form will always be used.

\fBOBJ_cmp() compares a to b. If the two are identical 0 is returned.

\fBOBJ_dup() returns a copy of o.

\fBOBJ_create() adds a new object to the internal table. oid is the numerical form of the object, sn the short name and ln the long name. A new \s-1NID\s0 is returned for the created object.

\fBOBJ_cleanup() cleans up OpenSSLs internal object table: this should be called before an application exits if any new objects were added using OBJ_create().

Header "NOTES" Objects in OpenSSL can have a short name, a long name and a numerical identifier (\s-1NID\s0) associated with them. A standard set of objects is represented in an internal table. The appropriate values are defined in the header file objects.h.

For example the \s-1OID\s0 for commonName has the following definitions:

.Vb 3 #define SN_commonName "CN" #define LN_commonName "commonName" #define NID_commonName 13 .Ve

New objects can be added by calling OBJ_create().

Table objects have certain advantages over other objects: for example their NIDs can be used in a C language switch statement. They are also static constant structures which are shared: that is there is only a single constant structure for each table object.

Objects which are not in the table have the \s-1NID\s0 value NID_undef.

Objects do not need to be in the internal tables to be processed, the functions OBJ_txt2obj() and OBJ_obj2txt() can process the numerical form of an \s-1OID.\s0

Some objects are used to represent algorithms which do not have a corresponding \s-1ASN.1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER\s0 encoding (for example no \s-1OID\s0 currently exists for a particular algorithm). As a result they cannot be encoded or decoded as part of \s-1ASN.1\s0 structures. Applications can determine if there is a corresponding \s-1OBJECT IDENTIFIER\s0 by checking OBJ_length() is not zero.

These functions cannot return const because an \s-1ASN1_OBJECT\s0 can represent both an internal, constant, \s-1OID\s0 and a dynamically-created one. The latter cannot be constant because it needs to be freed after use.

Header "EXAMPLES" Create an object for commonName:

.Vb 2 ASN1_OBJECT *o; o = OBJ_nid2obj(NID_commonName); .Ve

Check if an object is commonName

.Vb 2 if (OBJ_obj2nid(obj) == NID_commonName) /* Do something */ .Ve

Create a new \s-1NID\s0 and initialize an object from it:

.Vb 2 int new_nid; ASN1_OBJECT *obj; \& new_nid = OBJ_create("1.2.3.4", "NewOID", "New Object Identifier"); \& obj = OBJ_nid2obj(new_nid); .Ve

Create a new object directly:

.Vb 1 obj = OBJ_txt2obj("1.2.3.4", 1); .Ve

Header "BUGS" \fBOBJ_obj2txt() is awkward and messy to use: it doesn't follow the convention of other OpenSSL functions where the buffer can be set to \s-1NULL\s0 to determine the amount of data that should be written. Instead buf must point to a valid buffer and buf_len should be set to a positive value. A buffer length of 80 should be more than enough to handle any \s-1OID\s0 encountered in practice. Header "RETURN VALUES" \fBOBJ_nid2obj() returns an \s-1ASN1_OBJECT\s0 structure or \s-1NULL\s0 is an error occurred. It returns a pointer to an internal table and does not allocate memory; ASN1_OBJECT_free() will have no effect.

\fBOBJ_nid2ln() and OBJ_nid2sn() returns a valid string or \s-1NULL\s0 on error.

\fBOBJ_obj2nid(), OBJ_ln2nid(), OBJ_sn2nid() and OBJ_txt2nid() return a \s-1NID\s0 or NID_undef on error.

Header "SEE ALSO" \fBERR_get_error\|(3) Header "HISTORY" \s-1TBA\s0