gnutls_x509_crt_set_subject_alt_othername(3)

gnutls_x509_crt_set_subject_alt_othername3

Api function

Usage

#include <gnutls/x509.h>

int gnutls_x509_crt_set_subject_alt_othername(gnutls_x509_crt_t crt, const char * oid, const void * data, unsigned int data_size, unsigned int flags);

Arguments

gnutls_x509_crt_t crt

a certificate of type gnutls_x509_crt_t

const char * oid

The other name OID

const void * data

The data to be set

unsigned int data_size

The size of data to be set

unsigned int flags

GNUTLS_FSAN_SET to clear previous data or GNUTLS_FSAN_APPEND to append.

Overview

This function will set an "othername" to the subject alternative name certificate extension.

The values set are set as binary values and are expected to have the proper DER encoding. For convenience the flags GNUTLS_FSAN_ENCODE_OCTET_STRING and GNUTLS_FSAN_ENCODE_UTF8_STRING can be used to encode the provided data.

Returns

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

Since

3.5.0

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

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

Reporting bugs

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

From gnutls 3.8.13-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-07. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.