Re: Question regarding Digital Certificates in LDAP

[Rui M. <rmo...@wh...>]

Hello.
Sorry for introducing some noise in this but, anyone knows if there is a
perl/ldap module that allows Apache to store Digital Certificates in LDAP
( Netscape Directory Services )

Thanks in advance

Chris Ridd wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:44:35 CDT, Mark Wilcox wrote:
> > What you'll need to do is look into the openSSL stuff to parse this out
> > for you.
> >
> > When you say you use Netscape, what do you
> > mean? Communicator? PerLDAP? the command line tools?
> >
> > Mark
>
> Well, you could also try using Convert::ASN1 to pick apart the
> certificate. If you can get the certificate (the binary value itself,
> not a Base-64 encoding of it or anything) into $val, then the following
> should print out something.
>
> use Convert::ASN1;
> use Convert::ASN1::Debug;
>
> Convert::ASN1::asn_dump(&STDOUT, $val);
>
> To get more selective info from the cert you need to get Convert::ASN1
> to decode the value instead of just dumping it. To get that to happen
> you need the ASN.1 definition of certificates - the canonical
> definition is in a standard called X.509, but there are copies of the
> definition in some RFCs - RFC 2459 being the first one I could find.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris

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