On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:50:02AM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've very recently decided to create my own Cert Authority in order to
> produce certificates to replace all the built in self-signed ones on
> devices such as routers,switches etc.
>
> I'm having problems with the certificate signing requests generated by
> Dell iDRAC6 management interfaces. The hostname is quite long and the
> FQDN totals 57 characters. The last 7 or so characters are being
> chopped off from the CSR.
RFC3280 says the maximum length of the common name should be 64.
But not every implementation respects it. OpenSSL does.
And it throws an error if the limit is exceeded.
Cheers
Christian
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