Subject Names

The subject field of a PKCS #10 certificate request contains the distinguished name of the entity requesting the certificate.

CertificationRequestInfo ::= SEQUENCE 
{
 version CertificationRequestInfoVersion,
 subject Name,
 subjectPublicKeyInfo SubjectPublicKeyInfo,
 attributes [0] IMPLICIT Attributes
}

The distinguished name consists of a sequence of relative distinguished names (RDNs). Each RDN consists of a set of attributes, and each attribute consists of an object identifier and a value. The data type of the value is identified by the DirectoryString structure.

Name ::= SEQUENCE OF RelativeDistinguishedName

RelativeDistinguishedName ::= SET OF AttributeTypeValue

AttributeTypeValue ::= SEQUENCE 
{
 type EncodedObjectID,
 value ANY 
}

DirectoryString ::= CHOICE 
{
 teletexString TeletexString (SIZE (1..MAX)),
 printableString PrintableString (SIZE (1..MAX)),
 universalString UniversalString (SIZE (1..MAX)),
 utf8String UTF8String (SIZE (1..MAX)),
 bmpString BMPString (SIZE (1..MAX)) 
}

For more information, see the following topics:

• Creating a Subject Name
• Encoding a Subject Name

Related topics

Requests