Add a function for encoding SET OF.

The Chromium certificate verifier ends up encoding a SET OF when
canonicalizing X.509 names. Requiring the caller canonicalize a SET OF
is complicated enough that we should probably sort it for folks. (We
really need to get this name canonicalization insanity out of X.509...)

This would remove the extra level of indirection in Chromium
net/cert/internal/verify_name_match.cc CBB usage.

Note this is not quite the same order as SET, but SET is kind of
useless. Since it's encoding heterogeneous values, it is reasonable to
require the caller just encode them in the correct order. In fact, a DER
SET is just SEQUENCE with a post-processing step on the definition to
fix the ordering of the fields. (Unless the SET contains an untagged
CHOICE, in which case the ordering is weird, but SETs are not really
used in the real world, much less SETs with untagged CHOICEs.)

Bug: 11
Change-Id: I51e7938a81529243e7514360f867330359ae4f2c
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/24444
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
3 files changed
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  8. ssl/
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  10. tool/
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  12. .clang-format
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  14. API-CONVENTIONS.md
  15. BUILDING.md
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  18. CONTRIBUTING.md
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README.md

BoringSSL

BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs.

Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.

Programs ship their own copies of BoringSSL when they use it and we update everything as needed when deciding to make API changes. This allows us to mostly avoid compromises in the name of compatibility. It works for us, but it may not work for you.

BoringSSL arose because Google used OpenSSL for many years in various ways and, over time, built up a large number of patches that were maintained while tracking upstream OpenSSL. As Google's product portfolio became more complex, more copies of OpenSSL sprung up and the effort involved in maintaining all these patches in multiple places was growing steadily.

Currently BoringSSL is the SSL library in Chrome/Chromium, Android (but it's not part of the NDK) and a number of other apps/programs.

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