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authormarha <marha@users.sourceforge.net>2015-02-22 14:43:31 +0100
committermarha <marha@users.sourceforge.net>2015-02-22 14:43:31 +0100
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--- a/openssl/doc/crypto/d2i_X509.pod
+++ b/openssl/doc/crypto/d2i_X509.pod
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ i2d_X509_fp - X509 encode and decode functions
int i2d_X509_bio(BIO *bp, X509 *x);
int i2d_X509_fp(FILE *fp, X509 *x);
+ int i2d_re_X509_tbs(X509 *x, unsigned char **out);
+
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The X509 encode and decode routines encode and parse an
@@ -57,11 +59,17 @@ i2d_X509_fp() is similar to i2d_X509() except it writes
the encoding of the structure B<x> to BIO B<bp> and it
returns 1 for success and 0 for failure.
+i2d_re_X509_tbs() is similar to i2d_X509() except it encodes
+only the TBSCertificate portion of the certificate.
+
=head1 NOTES
The letters B<i> and B<d> in for example B<i2d_X509> stand for
-"internal" (that is an internal C structure) and "DER". So that
-B<i2d_X509> converts from internal to DER.
+"internal" (that is an internal C structure) and "DER". So
+B<i2d_X509> converts from internal to DER. The "re" in
+B<i2d_re_X509_tbs> stands for "re-encode", and ensures that a fresh
+encoding is generated in case the object has been modified after
+creation (see the BUGS section).
The functions can also understand B<BER> forms.
@@ -206,6 +214,21 @@ fields entirely and will not be parsed by d2i_X509(). This may be
fixed in future so code should not assume that i2d_X509() will
always succeed.
+The encoding of the TBSCertificate portion of a certificate is cached
+in the B<X509> structure internally to improve encoding performance
+and to ensure certificate signatures are verified correctly in some
+certificates with broken (non-DER) encodings.
+
+Any function which encodes an X509 structure such as i2d_X509(),
+i2d_X509_fp() or i2d_X509_bio() may return a stale encoding if the
+B<X509> structure has been modified after deserialization or previous
+serialization.
+
+If, after modification, the B<X509> object is re-signed with X509_sign(),
+the encoding is automatically renewed. Otherwise, the encoding of the
+TBSCertificate portion of the B<X509> can be manually renewed by calling
+i2d_re_X509_tbs().
+
=head1 RETURN VALUES
d2i_X509(), d2i_X509_bio() and d2i_X509_fp() return a valid B<X509> structure