Re: Is it necessary to generate a new SSL request each year?

2009-04-30 Thread John Almberg
You can reuse the old one. I'm not an expert on these, but it was my understanding that certificates carry in internal expiration date after which the application may respond as it pleases. Yes, but the *request* does not. Also, if using openssl, just set the defaults in /etc/ssl/

Re: Is it necessary to generate a new SSL request each year?

2009-04-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 29), John Almberg said: When buying a new SSL cert, I've been generating a new request each year... I am just about to buy another and it occurred to me that I'm entering the same info. Do I really need a new request file each year? Or can I just reuse the same one

Re: Is it necessary to generate a new SSL request each year?

2009-04-29 Thread Robert Huff
Dan Nelson writes: When buying a new SSL cert, I've been generating a new request each year... I am just about to buy another and it occurred to me that I'm entering the same info. Do I really need a new request file each year? Or can I just reuse the same one (presuming none

Re: Is it necessary to generate a new SSL request each year?

2009-04-29 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 30 April 2009 01:05:50 Robert Huff wrote: Dan Nelson writes: When buying a new SSL cert, I've been generating a new request each year... I am just about to buy another and it occurred to me that I'm entering the same info. Do I really need a new request file each