OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_PRINT(3ossl)

💖 OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_PRINT 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the OpenSSL manual, and it's about exactly one little function: OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print. yes, the name is a whole mouthful, we're gonna get through it together. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print — the OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX printing girlie. that's it, that's her whole job. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <openssl/x509_acert.h>

int OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print(BIO *bp, OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX *a,
                                int indent);

like. look at her. three args, one int coming back. iconic, no notes. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print() takes a and prints a human readable version of it to the BIO called bp. literally just making it legible for your eyeballs instead of leaving you staring at raw DER like 😭.

and the cute part: every single line of that output gets indented by indent spaces. so if you pass 4, everything is nested four spaces in. aesthetic nesting. 🎀

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👑 RETURN VALUES 👑

• 1 — success, we ate, we slayed. ✨
• 0 — failure, it's giving sad girl hours. 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• ASN1_STRING_print_ex(3) — go read that one too, bestie, iykyk. 💜

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

OSSL_IETF_ATTR_SYNTAX_print() was added in OpenSSL 3.4. so she's a newer addition to the family, main character energy from day one, fr fr. 🌈

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🌸 COPYRIGHT 🌸

Copyright 2021-2024 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.

okay legally i have to be serious for one second: this is a real license, respect it. no cap. 🙈

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was OpenSSL 3.5.9, dated 2026-09-29 — go forth and print your attribute syntaxes, you absolute legend. 🧚💖 mwah.