gnutls_x509_crt_get_dn2(3)

gnutls_x509_crt_get_dn23

Api function

Usage

#include <gnutls/x509.h>

int gnutls_x509_crt_get_dn2(gnutls_x509_crt_t cert, gnutls_datum_t * dn);

Arguments

gnutls_x509_crt_t cert

should contain a gnutls_x509_crt_t type

gnutls_datum_t * dn

a pointer to a structure to hold the name; must be freed using gnutls_free()

Overview

This function will allocate buffer and copy the name of the Certificate. The name will be in the form "C=xxxx,O=yyyy,CN=zzzz" as described in RFC4514. The output string will be ASCII or UTF-8 encoded, depending on the certificate data.

This function does not output a fully RFC4514 compliant string, if that is required see gnutls_x509_crt_get_dn3().

Returns

On success, GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS (0) is returned, otherwise a negative error value.

Since

3.1.10

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
Home page: https://www.gnutls.org

From gnutls 3.8.13-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.