A friendly name is a field of a certificate - typically if you check for
example IE - you'll see a column entitled friendly name and most certificates
have these.
I believe the method I'm using below creates a certificate only - if I
understand correctly PKCS12 is a type of certificate container so I am not sure
if I need this?
That said I have seen postings with a PKCS12 export and a -name option but was
hoping there was similar option to add to the steps I'm doing below?
----- Original Message -----
From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org <owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org>
To: openssl-users@openssl.org <openssl-users@openssl.org>
Sent: Fri Dec 02 00:23:10 2011
Subject: Re: Friendly name
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011, Hopkins, Nathan wrote:
> I'm using the below commands to create a ca ...
>
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> openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 2048
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> openssl req -new -x509 -key ca.key -out ca.crt -days 730
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> ... please can you advise how I can add a "friendly name" to this cert?
>
What do you mean by "friendly name": i.e. why do you want to add one and what
do you expect it to do?
There is a PKCS#12 attribute called friendlyName but adding this to a
certificate is non-standard.
Steve.
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