The X509 ASN1 allocation routines, allocate and free an X509
structure, which represents an X509 certificate.
X509_new() allocates and initializes a X509 structure.
X509_free() frees up the X509
structure a.
RETURN VALUES
If the allocation fails, X509_new() returns NULL and sets an error code that can be
obtained by ERR_get_error(3). Otherwise it
returns a pointer to the newly allocated structure.