X509_NAME_GET0_DER(3SSL)

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✨ X509_NAME_GET0_DER 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the OpenSSL corner of the man pages (it's the 3SSL family, iykyk) — today's episode is all about X509_NAME_get0_der, aka the glow-up shortcut for peeking at an X509_NAME's DER encoding without doing a whole copy situation. no cap. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

X509_NAME_get0_der — get X509_NAME DER encoding

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <openssl/x509.h>

int X509_NAME_get0_der(const X509_NAME *nm, const unsigned char **pder,
                       size_t *pderlen);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the tea is this: X509_NAME_get0_der() hands you back an internal pointer to the encoding of an X509_NAME structure, and it drops it right into *pder, with the length being *pderlen bytes. that's it, that's the whole vibe. ✨

it's giving main character energy for applications that wanna examine the encoding of an X509_NAME structure without copying it. no extra malloc, no duplicate bytes, just... look at it. respectfully. 👑

lowkey important: that pointer is internal. you're borrowing it, not keeping it. the word "internal" is doing a LOT of work here, bestie. 🙈

⭐ RETURN VALUES ⭐

  • 1 — success, slay, we ate 💅
  • 0 — an error occurred 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Copyright 2002-2020 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.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was version 4.0.3, dated 2026-09-29, from the OpenSSL X509_NAME_GET0_DER(3SSL) era — periodt. 💜🌸

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