V_ASN1_APP_CHOOSE has been discouraged by OpenSSL since 2000:
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blob;f=CHANGES;h=824f421b8d331ba2a2009dbda333a57493bedb1e;hb=fb047ebc87b18bdc4cf9ddee9ee1f5ed93e56aff#l10848
Instead, upstream recommends an MBSTRING_* constant.
https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man3/X509_NAME_add_entry_by_NID.html
This function is a bit overloaded:
MBSTRING_* means "Decode my input from this format and then re-encode it
using whatever string type best suits the NID (usually UTF8String, but
some NIDs require PrintableString)".
V_ASN1_APP_CHOOSE means "This is a Latin-1 string. Without looking at
the NID, pick one of PrintableString, IA5String, or T61String".
The latter is almost certainly not what callers want. If they want a
particular type, they can always force it by passing a particular
V_ASN1_* constant. This removes the only use of ASN1_PRINTABLE_type
within the library, though there is one external use still.
Update-Note: V_ASN1_APP_CHOOSE is removed. I only found one use, which
has been fixed.
Change-Id: Id36376dd0ec68559bbbb366e2305d42be5ddac67
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/49067
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
David Benjamin
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