s the numerical form of an OID.</p>

<p>Some objects are used to represent algorithms which do not have a corresponding ASN.1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER encoding (for example no OID currently exists for a particular algorithm). As a result they <b>cannot</b> be encoded or decoded as part of ASN.1 structures. Applications can determine if there is a corresponding OBJECT IDENTIFIER by checking OBJ_length() is not zero.</p>

<p>These functions cannot return <b>const</b> because an <b>ASN1_OBJECT</b> can represent both 