PKCS12_ADD_FRIENDLYNAME_ASC(3SSL)

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💖 PKCS12_ADD_FRIENDLYNAME_ASC 💖

okay bestie, so this is the 3SSL section of the OpenSSL manual — yes, the one that literally lives in the PKCS12_ADD_FRIENDLYNAME_ASC(3SSL) page — and today we are learning how to give your PKCS#12 safeBag a cute lil name. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

PKCS12_add_friendlyname_asc, PKCS12_add_friendlyname_utf8, PKCS12_add_friendlyname_uni — these are the functions that add the friendlyname attribute to a PKCS#12 safeBag. no cap, that's the whole job. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lowkey the most important part, look at it:

#include <openssl/pkcs12.h>

int PKCS12_add_friendlyname_asc(PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag, const char *name,
                                int namelen);

int PKCS12_add_friendlyname_utf8(PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag, const char *name,
                                int namelen);

int PKCS12_add_friendlyname_uni(PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag,
                                const unsigned char *name, int namelen);

like, three sisters, three vibes, one mission. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

  • PKCS12_add_friendlyname_asc() — this one adds an ASCII string representation of the PKCS#9 friendlyName attribute to a PKCS#12 safeBag. old school, but it ate. ✨
  • PKCS12_add_friendlyname_utf8() — this one adds a UTF-8 string representation of the PKCS#9 friendlyName attribute to a PKCS#12 safeBag. this is giving main character energy fr fr. 🌈
  • PKCS12_add_friendlyname_uni() — this one adds a Unicode string representation of the PKCS#9 friendlyName attribute to a PKCS#12 safeBag. fancy. iconic. 👑

also, <italic>bag</italic> is the PKCS12_SAFEBAG you're adding the attribute to. that's it, that's the parameter, she's just the bag. 👜

✨ RETURN VALUES ✨

  • 1 → success, slay, we love to see it 💖
  • 0 → failure, not the vibe 😭
bestie it literally only returns 1 or 0. no in-between, no gray area. periodt.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Copyright 2019 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 that's the whole page, you're literally a PKCS#12 friendlyname expert now, I'm so proud. 🌸

this was 4.0.3, dated 2026-09-29, from the OpenSSL era — love that for us. go name some bags, bestie. 💜✨🧚

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