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Explain the content of the serial number field
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To ensure this page won't get out of date, please study the existing entries and field names, they should make it clear what you must provide. One noteworthy detail are the issuer and serial number fields. To produce the strings expected both in source code and the external file, take the binary representation of those fields (as stored in the certificate) and encode them as base64. | To ensure this page won't get out of date, please study the existing entries and field names, they should make it clear what you must provide. One noteworthy detail are the issuer and serial number fields. To produce the strings expected both in source code and the external file, take the binary representation of those fields (as stored in the certificate) and encode them as base64. | ||
Note that the binary representation of the serial number is of the DER encoded INTEGER with the Identifier and Length octets removed. Only the Contents octets from the DER representation of the integer serial number are base64 encoded for this file. | |||
PSM will use {issuer name, serial number} as a key to find potential root certs in NSS storage. | PSM will use {issuer name, serial number} as a key to find potential root certs in NSS storage. | ||