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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libcrypto/man/X509_ATTRIBUTE_new.3')
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diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/X509_ATTRIBUTE_new.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/X509_ATTRIBUTE_new.3 index f0568e196db..776c4b17ce7 100644 --- a/lib/libcrypto/man/X509_ATTRIBUTE_new.3 +++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/X509_ATTRIBUTE_new.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: X509_ATTRIBUTE_new.3,v 1.3 2016/12/28 13:45:30 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: X509_ATTRIBUTE_new.3,v 1.4 2016/12/28 20:29:15 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2016 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> .\" @@ -31,8 +31,10 @@ .Ft void .Fn X509_ATTRIBUTE_free "X509_ATTRIBUTE *attr" .Sh DESCRIPTION -In the X.501 standard, an Attribute is the fundamental ASN.1 data type -used to represent any kind of property of any kind of directory entry. +In the X.501 standard, an +.Vt Attribute +is the fundamental ASN.1 data type used to represent any kind of +property of any kind of directory entry. In OpenSSL, very few objects use it directly, most notably the .Vt X509_REQ_INFO object used for PKCS#10 certification requests described in @@ -68,7 +70,11 @@ if an error occurs. .Xr X509_REQ_new 3 .Sh STANDARDS .Bl -ohang -.It For the general definition of the Attribute data type: +.It Xo +For the general definition of the +.Vt Attribute +data type: +.Xc ITU-T Recommendation X.501, also known as ISO/IEC 9594-2: Information Technology \(en Open Systems Interconnection \(en The Directory: Models, section 8.2: Overall structure |