From 899a1058abcbe6fe59592ed5d46cc4b55cf12326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: schwarze <> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 22:15:10 +0000 Subject: Consistently mark up various ASN.1 type names defined in standards related to X.509 with .Vt such that they can be searched for. --- src/lib/libcrypto/man/X509_NAME_new.3 | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/lib/libcrypto/man/X509_NAME_new.3') diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/man/X509_NAME_new.3 b/src/lib/libcrypto/man/X509_NAME_new.3 index 5666635198..c4efab7784 100644 --- a/src/lib/libcrypto/man/X509_NAME_new.3 +++ b/src/lib/libcrypto/man/X509_NAME_new.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: X509_NAME_new.3,v 1.2 2016/12/24 01:29:40 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: X509_NAME_new.3,v 1.3 2016/12/25 22:15:10 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2016 Ingo Schwarze .\" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: December 24 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 25 2016 $ .Dt X509_NAME_NEW 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -31,12 +31,16 @@ .Ft void .Fn X509_NAME_free "X509_NAME *name" .Sh DESCRIPTION -An X.501 Name is an ordered sequence of relative distinguished names. +An X.501 +.Vt Name +is an ordered sequence of relative distinguished names. A relative distinguished name is a set of key-value pairs; see .Xr X509_NAME_ENTRY_new 3 for details. .Pp -Various X.509 structures contain X.501 Name substructures. +Various X.509 structures contain X.501 +.Vt Name +substructures. They are for example used for the issuers of certificates and certificate revocation lists and for the subjects of certificates and certificate requests. @@ -44,8 +48,9 @@ and certificate requests. .Fn X509_NAME_new allocates and initializes an empty .Vt X509_NAME -object, representing an ASN.1 Name structure -defined in RFC 5280 section 4.1.2.4. +object, representing an ASN.1 +.Vt Name +structure defined in RFC 5280 section 4.1.2.4. Data can be added to such objects with the functions described in .Xr X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt 3 , and they can be inspected with the functions described in -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g6feb