Certificate serial number generation algorithms

Eric Rescorla ekr at rtfm.com
Sun Oct 10 21:16:21 EDT 2004


Does anyone know the details of the certificate generation algorithms
used by various CAs? 

In particular, Verisign's is very long and I seem to remember someone telling
me it was a hach but I don't recall the details...

Thanks,
-Ekr

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