In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:01:28 +0200, "Dr. Stephen Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
steve> That is the problem. You should not create 00 in the serial steve> file because the serial number 00 is used by default for the steve> root CA. You should instead use 01. This is mentioned in the steve> EXAMPLES section of the ca manual page and CA.pl does this. steve> steve> OpenSSL shouldn't corrupt index.txt though even if serial is 00. A way to solve this is to have load_serial() in ca.c check if the loaded serial number is 0, and set it to 1 in such a case. What would the implications be? -- Richard Levitte \ Spannvägen 38, II \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Redakteur@Stacken \ S-168 35 BROMMA \ T: +46-8-26 52 47 \ SWEDEN \ or +46-708-26 53 44 Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]