Timeline for Why does the RFC 5280 dictate the CAs not to issue certificates with negative serial numbers?
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| Feb 18, 2014 at 18:54 | comment | added | Stephen Touset | Current standard practice is unrelated to what it was designed for. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 18:24 | comment | added | Adi |
This makes little to no sense. The current standard practice is to use a randomly generated value for the serialNumber in an X.509 certificate.
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| Feb 18, 2014 at 17:22 | history | answered | Steve | CC BY-SA 3.0 |