


pragma.įor compatibility with older versions of OpenSSL, an equal sign after the directive will be ignored. Two directives can be used to control the parsing of configuration files. If the # is the first non-space character in a line, the entire line is ignored. A comment starts with a # character the rest of the line is ignored. Blank lines, and whitespace between the elements of a line, have no significance. SyntaxĪ configuration file is a series of lines.

The syntax for defining ASN.1 values is described in ASN1_generate_nconf(3). Other modules are described in fips_config(5) and x509v3_config(5). The first part describes the general syntax of the configuration files, and subsequent sections describe the semantics of individual modules. This format is used by many of the OpenSSL commands, and to initialize the libraries when used by any application. This page documents the syntax of OpenSSL configuration files, as parsed by NCONF_load(3) and related functions. OpenSSL CONF library configuration files Description
