I think renewing CA certificate with the same keys will not cause
problems. However I don't remember the procedure in the OpenCA
administration interface. Sorry

On 4/24/06, Jan Roesner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Listusers,
>
> some month ago I setup openca for testing purposes and created a root
> certificate with a validity of exactly one year. I use that CA to enroll
> SSL Client certificates for certificate based user authentication
> against a Apache 2.0 Server. That works fantasticall well. Now the
> validity of my root Certificate ends and I dont want to completely reset
> the CA/RA.
>
> The question is : Is it possible to simply create a new certificate
> request from the existing root certificate, selfsing it, and install it
> as new root certificate?
> If yes :  I think I will have to install the new root certificate and
> the crl on my Apache, but will my old SSL Client certificates still be
> valid for authentification if I have two root certificates in my
> ca-bundle file containing the same subject?
>
> If this idea is possible, what is the easiest way to do that?
>

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Diego de Felice


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