A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
are these used for anything? i'm confused as to what they're for.
i couldn't find anything in the list archives about them.
VeriSign requires the challenge password for renewing a certificate.
It's probably used for other, similar
hi. i was creating a new cert for thawte website verification, when i
noticed these 2 "extra" questions during the csr creation:
Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
are these used for
The Red Hat Apache/SSL manual states
"You don't need to use either of the
extra attributes." and just suggests
hitting Enter to bypass them. Doesn't
say what they are used for if you did
use them.
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Keith Parkansky
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