Re: [Fwd] Dear Mr. Barr : ldap problem

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
> Can anyone on this list help Mrvka ? I don't actually have
> an example of using Convert::ASN1 to encode/decode a
> certificate
> 
> Graham.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Mrvka Andreas <mr...@tu...> -----
> 
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:07:35 +0200
> To: "'gb...@po...'" <gb...@po...>
> From: Mrvka Andreas <mr...@tu...>
> Subject: Dear Mr. Barr : ldap problem
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> 
> Dear Mr. Barr,
> 
> I've found your perl-ldap module and use it in my company.
> It's working fine! 
> 
> Now I have to check out a binary data for certificates and found your
> tool Convert-ASN1.
> 
> it seems that this tool does what I need but it's a little bit too less
> documented how I can work with it.
> 
> Will you please be so kind and mail me an example for encoding/decoding
> a certificate (binary data)?
> 
> Just if it's no problem.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> best regards
> 
> Mrvka Andreas
> 
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You don't say what you want to extract from your certificates... Here is
some code which decodes a cert, and has a minimal DN decoder too. It prints
out the validity period and subject and issuer DNs, just as an example.

Cheers,

Chris