[pyOpenSSL] Parsing subjectaltname

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Tue, 5 May 2009 10:55:15 +0200, Wouter van Bommel <woutervanbommel at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Currently I am working on a project in which I need to parse an
>subjectaltname part of a certificate.
>It is known that the type of the subjectaltname is of type otherName
>(2.5.5.5).
>
>Code to insert it in the certificate is probably simular to the examples
>used in the discussion on http://markmail.org/message/b7lmomgglut22sdl
>
>To solve this issue I am wondering which approach is the best. Adding an
>extension to extract subjectaltname and some kind of typeconversion (yet no
>idea how, but probably can implement something)  or are there other
>possiblities / solutions already available.
>
>Currently I am able to generate the correct commandline option for openssl
>asn1parse to show me only the content of the subjectaltname part
>(reinterpret by the parser, hence human readable).

I'm not really sure what you're asking.

Are you looking for a pyOpenSSL for getting the subjectAltName from an
X509 object?

Or are you trying to include a subjectAltName in a new certificate created
with pyOpenSSL?

Jean-Paul