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authorRob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>2013-01-08 20:04:35 +0000
committerRob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>2013-01-08 20:04:35 +0000
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Pull from trunk.
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+++ b/doc/doc.RPKI.CA.Configuration.rootd
@@ -142,7 +142,11 @@ generate a root certificate as follows:
$ openssl x509 -req -sha256 \
-signkey root.key -in root.req \
-outform DER -out root.cer \
- -extfile root.conf -extensions x509v3_extensions
+ -extfile root.conf -extensions x509v3_extensions \
+ -days 1825
+
+You may want to shorten the five year expire time (1825 days), which is a bit
+long. It is a root certificate, so a longer expire is not unusual.
The generated root.cer must be copied to the publication directory as defined
in rpki.conf,