hi. i was creating a new cert for thawte website verification, when i noticed these 2 "extra" questions during the csr creation: Please enter the following 'extra' attributes to be sent with your certificate request A challenge password []: An optional company name []: are these used for anything? i'm confused as to what they're for. i couldn't find anything in the list archives about them. thanks for any info. -tcl. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]