Commits on Jan 27, 2019

1. crypto: fix public key encoding name in comment …

   PKCS#8 describes an encoding for private keys, not public keys. Using
   the name as a format usually refers to the PrivateKeyInfo structure it
   defines. (Or sometimes the EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo variant or the
   little-used OneAsymmetricKey extension defined in RFC 5958.) None of
   these structures can hold public keys to begin with.
   
   d2i_PUBKEY actually parses the public key analogous format defined in
   X.509, SubjectPublicKeyInfo. This function already uses "X.509" to refer
   to an entire certificate, so say SubjectPublicKeyInfo in the comment.
   
   (The abbreviation SPKI sometimes refers to SubjectPublicKeyInfo, e.g. in
   RFC 7469, but it can also an alternate S-expression-based PKI to X.509,
   Simple Public Key Infrastructure. To avoid confusion, stick with the
   expanded name.)

   

   davidben committed Jan 27, 2019
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