Issuer DN and serial number are unique.  In practice you'll need
to consider whether you'll be dealing with anyone other than
competent CAs (organizations and individuals).  "openssl ca" is
great but it's trivial to produce multiple certs with the same
issuer DN and serial number.

Bear

Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> We'd like to tie all of our certificates to a unique identifier in a
> DB... is there an attribute out there, perhaps in the PKIX extensions or
> x509v3 extensions or somewhere else that would be a reasonable place for
> this?
> 
> Thanks,

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