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?

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