From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 29 22:52:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28FE106564A for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:52:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860108FC21 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:52:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n3TMq2Np002083 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:52:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3TMq2fG056035 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:52:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n3TMq0Lw056034; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:52:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:51:59 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: John Almberg Message-ID: <20090429225158.GC91578@dan.emsphone.com> References: <624F45CA-1083-4DC2-8A98-DFE44B5B6CE8@identry.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <624F45CA-1083-4DC2-8A98-DFE44B5B6CE8@identry.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.1, clamav-milter version 0.94.1 on email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:52:02 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it necessary to generate a new SSL request each year? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:52:05 -0000 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 (presuming none of the info has changed.) You can reuse the old one. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com