On So, 26 Feb 2006, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: [example snipped]
> The fairly large random value for serial numbers is designed to avoid that > situation but still allow the more knowledgeable user to override that. > > If you are sure the issuer name and serial number will be unique then you can > choose any value you wish. Fine, that's understandable. > One commercial reason for not using consecutive values is that competitors can > work out how many certificates you've issued... Yeah, the same procedure as with consecutive invoice-numbers indicating the number of clients ;-) Ciao, Georg ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
