It should probably say issuer, not subject.
var issuer, subject pkix.RDNSequence
if rest, err := asn1.Unmarshal(in.TBSCertificate.Subject.FullBytes, &subject); err != nil {
return nil, err
} else if len(rest) != 0 {
return nil, errors.New("x509: trailing data after X.509 subject")
}
if rest, err := asn1.Unmarshal(in.TBSCertificate.Issuer.FullBytes, &issuer); err != nil {
return nil, err
} else if len(rest) != 0 {
return nil, errors.New("x509: trailing data after X.509 subject")
}
See the following error in parseCertificate:
go/src/crypto/x509/x509.go
Line 1377 in 87805c9
It should probably say issuer, not subject.
Edit: