Issue #6703 has been updated by nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura). Status changed from Open to Assigned Assignee set to nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura) ---------------------------------------- Bug #6703: openssl: using a newly registered extension https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6703#change-28073 Author: vbatts (Vincent Batts) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura) Category: ext Target version: ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux] When registering a new ASN.1 extension OBJ_create(), it should make it available for OBJ_ln2nid() and OBJ_sn2nid() searches that are performed in OpenSSL::X509::ExtensionFactory.create_ext I've attached a ruby case where this should work, As well as a C sample where you can see it working. p.s. I wish that OBJ_txt2nid was added to the functions used when searching for the nid -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/