[jdev] cert handling in xmpp server implementations

[Justin Karneges]

On Thursday 25 May 2006 05:47, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
> Tony Finch said the following on 5/25/06 8:08 AM:
> > On Wed, 24 May 2006, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> >> I am working with a certification authority on adding XMPP support to
> >> the certificates they issue.
> >
> > Has anyone written a straightforward description of how to generate a
> > proper XMPP cert with all of the id-on-xmppAddr stuff using OpenSSL?
>
[...]
> Open up your openssl.cnf file and look for the new_oids section. They
> have an example there too. Oh and look at the man page for req. It has
> lots of examples of OIDs.

And if you're wondering how to do it in code, have a look at the qca-openssl 
plugin from the QCA project:
  http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/qca/plugins/qca-openssl/qca-openssl.cpp?rev=540405&view=auto

Search for 'XMPP' in there.

-Justin