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Benjamin Kaduk 3d362f1903 apps: allow empty attribute values with -subj 
Historically (i.e., OpenSSL 1.0.x), the openssl applications would
allow for empty subject attributes to be passed via the -subj argument,
e.g., `opensl req -subj '/CN=joe/O=/OU=local' ...`.  Commit
db4c08f019 applied a badly needed rewrite
to the parse_name() helper function that parses these strings, but
in the process dropped a check that would skip attributes with no
associated value.  As a result, such strings are now treated as
hard errors and the operation fails.

Restore the check to skip empty attribute values and restore
the historical behavior.

Document the behavior for empty subject attribute values in the
corresponding applications' manual pages.

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7349)
2018-10-08 16:32:47 -05:00
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HOWTO Update some documentation for X448/Ed448 2018-03-02 10:14:31 +00:00
man1 apps: allow empty attribute values with -subj 2018-10-08 16:32:47 -05:00
man3 Cleanup typos and grammar in DES_random_key.pod 2018-10-08 09:09:15 +02:00
man5 Clarify the configuration module in config.pod 2018-04-18 16:42:11 -04:00
man7 Update RAND_DRBG.pod 2018-09-17 01:56:47 +03:00
dir-locals.example.el Adjust the general fill-column in doc/dir-locals.example.el 2015-09-08 00:59:50 +02:00
fingerprints.txt Update fingerprints.txt 2018-04-17 16:57:10 +01:00
openssl-c-indent.el OpenSSL-II style for emacs: don't indent because of extern block 2018-06-23 07:59:06 +02:00
README More typo fixes 2017-03-29 07:14:29 +02:00

README 

README  This file

fingerprints.txt
        PGP fingerprints of authorised release signers

standards.txt
        Moved to the web, https://www.openssl.org/docs/standards.html

HOWTO/
        A few how-to documents; not necessarily up-to-date

man1/
        The openssl command-line tools; start with openssl.pod

man3/
        The SSL library and the crypto library

man5/
        File formats

man7/
        Overviews; start with crypto.pod and ssl.pod, for example
        Algorithm specific EVP_PKEY documentation.

Formatted versions of the manpages (apps,ssl,crypto) can be found at
        https://www.openssl.org/docs/manpages.html