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AIA_DESCRIPTION Reference

Represents the Authority Information Access (AIA) extension for X.509 v3 certificates, and specifies how to obtain CA information about the issuer of the certificate.

This information can include CA validation services and CA policy information, but it does not include CRLs.

The location of CRLs is specified by the CRL Distribution Points extension. (See DISTRIBUTION_POINT.)

This extension has a NON_CRITICAL default criticality. A certificate can have multiple AIA extensions simultaneously. Use this structure with C_AddExtensionValue() and C_GetExtensionValue().

#include <certext.h>

typedef struct AIA_DESCRIPTION {

  ITEM         accessMethod;
  GENERAL_NAME accessLocation;
} AIA_DESCRIPTION;

Data Fields
ITEM	accessMethod
	An `ITEM` structure whose `data` member points to an OID that indicates the type and format of the CA access information. More...
GENERAL_NAME	accessLocation
	A `GENERAL_NAME` structure that specifies the location of the CA access information.

Field Documentation

ITEM accessMethod

An ITEM structure whose data member points to an OID that indicates the type and format of the CA access information. The access method uses either a chain of CA issuers or a set of OCSP Responders. The possible values are:

CA Access Method OID Length

AIA_CAISSUERS AIA_CAISSUERS_LEN

AIA_OCSP AIA_OCSP_LEN

AIA_DESCRIPTION Reference

Data Fields

Field Documentation