John Sutton wrote:
>
> Hi again
>
> Another couple of minor questions:
>
> 1) In ssleay.cnf in Ben's distribution, he sets the default country code to GB:
>
> countryName_default = GB
>
> Is this merely a Republican sentiment, or is there a another good reason
> (not that Republicanism isn't a good one ;-) why this is to be preferred to
> the more usual "UK"?
I believe that GB is the correct ISO format, and UK is an Internet
oddity. Of course, until very recently, being 'usual' on the Internet,
meant that 4,236 academics and a couple of hackers preferred that
terminology... :)
>
> 2) What is this strange business of generating a odd named soft link to a
> key file:
>
> dd948bac.0 -> ../SSLconf/conf/httpsd.pem
>
> Is this necessary? desirable? why?
Necessary? No.
Desirable? Depends.
The soft link allows the server to find the relevant CA cert, quickly.
This is only an issue if you have a lot of certs. The bottom line is
your server will function OK without it.
>
> Thanks for all the help this far, and once again, TIA
>
> John Sutton
>
> PS Are Thawte usually so slow in doing business! It's been quite a few days
> since I applied to become a Hosting Partner (might as well have the 25 bucks
> per cert) but this far zilch. Not even an acknowledgement...
All the Hosting Partner program does is to lodge records of your
technical contact details etc. in a database, so you (or your clients)
don't need to re-enter them when you order a cert. In my experience,
applying will not generate any response from Thawte.
cheers,
Adam
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