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  • From: christian mock <address@concealed>
  • To: address@concealed
  • Subject: S/MIME certificate extraction: why "openssl -subject"?
  • Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:44:51 +0100

hi,

is there a specific reason that to extract a certificate's email address,
sympa uses "openssl x509 -subject" instead of "-email"?

The latter seems much more logical and helps to encapsulate more of the
X.509 braindamage in openssl...

ciao,

cm.

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Christian Mock Wiedner Hauptstrasse 15
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CoreTEC IT Security Solutions GmbH +43-1-5037273



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