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NE_SSL_CERT_IDENTITY(3)	      neon API reference       NE_SSL_CERT_IDENTITY(3)

NAME
       ne_ssl_cert_identity, ne_ssl_cert_signedby, ne_ssl_cert_issuer,
       ne_ssl_cert_subject - functions to access certificate properties

SYNOPSIS
       #include	<ne_ssl.h>

       const char *ne_ssl_cert_identity(const ne_ssl_certificate *cert);

       const ne_ssl_certificate
						      *ne_ssl_cert_signedby(const ne_ssl_certificate *cert);

       const ne_ssl_dname
					       *ne_ssl_cert_subject(const ne_ssl_certificate *cert);

       const ne_ssl_dname *ne_ssl_cert_issuer(const ne_ssl_certificate *cert);

DESCRIPTION
       The function ne_ssl_cert_identity retrieves the "identity" of a
       certificate; for	an SSL server certificate, this	will be	the hostname
       for which the certificate was issued. In	PKI parlance, the identity is
       the common name attribute of the	distinguished name of the certificate
       subject.

       The functions ne_ssl_cert_subject and ne_ssl_cert_issuer	can be used to
       access the objects representing the distinguished name of the subject
       and of the issuer of a certificate, respectively.

       If a certificate	object is part of a certificate	chain, then
       ne_ssl_cert_signedby can	be used	to find	the certificate	which signed a
       particular certificate. For a self-signed certificate or	a certificate
       for which the full chain	is not available, this function	will return
       NULL.

RETURN VALUE
       ne_ssl_cert_issuer and ne_ssl_cert_subject are guaranteed to never
       return NULL.  ne_ssl_cert_identity may return NULL if the certificate
       has no specific "identity".  ne_ssl_cert_signedby may return NULL as
       covered above.

EXAMPLES
       The following function could be used to display information about a
       given certificate:

	   void	dump_cert(const	ne_ssl_certificate *cert) {
	     const char	*id = ne_ssl_cert_identity(cert);
	     char *dn;

	     if	(id)
	       printf("Certificate was issued for '%s'.\n", id);

	     dn	= ne_ssl_readable_dname(ne_ssl_cert_subject(cert));
	     printf("Subject: %s\n", dn);
	     free(dn);

	     dn	= ne_ssl_readable_dname(ne_ssl_cert_issuer(cert));
	     printf("Issuer: %s\n", dn);
	     free(dn);
	   }

SEE ALSO
       ne_ssl_cert_cmp,	ne_ssl_readable_dname

AUTHOR
       Joe Orton
	   Author.

COPYRIGHT
neon 0.32.5			21 January 2023	       NE_SSL_CERT_IDENTITY(3)

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