An X.509 name represents a hostname, email address or other entity associated with a public key.

You can create a Name by parsing a distinguished name String or by supplying the distinguished name as an Array.

name = OpenSSL::X509::Name.parse 'CN=nobody/DC=example'

name = OpenSSL::X509::Name.new [['CN', 'nobody'], ['DC', 'example']]
Constants

DEFAULT_OBJECT_TYPE

The default object type for name entries.

OBJECT_TYPE_TEMPLATE

The default object type template for name entries.

COMPAT

A flag for to_s.

Breaks the name returned into multiple lines if longer than 80 characters.

RFC2253

A flag for to_s.

Returns an RFC2253 format name.

ONELINE

A flag for to_s.

Returns a more readable format than RFC2253.

MULTILINE

A flag for to_s.

Returns a multiline format.

Class Methods

Creates a new Name.

A name may be created from a DER encoded string der, an Array representing a distinguished_name or a distinguished_name along with a template.

name = OpenSSL::X509::Name.new [['CN', 'nobody'], ['DC', 'example']]

name = OpenSSL::X509::Name.new name.to_der

See add_entry for a description of the distinguished_name Array’s contents

An alias for parse_openssl
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Instance Methods
An alias for cmp

Adds a new entry with the given oid and value to this name. The oid is an object identifier defined in ASN.1. Some common OIDs are:

C

Country Name

CN

Common Name

DC

Domain Component

O

Organization Name

OU

Organizational Unit Name

ST

State or Province Name

Compares this Name with other and returns 0 if they are the same and -1 or +1 if they are greater or less than each other respectively.

Returns true if name and other refer to the same hash key.

The hash value returned is suitable for use as a certificate’s filename in a CA path.

Returns an MD5 based hash used in OpenSSL 0.9.X.

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Returns an Array representation of the distinguished name suitable for passing to ::new

Converts the name to DER encoding