[openssl-users] Clearing up some of my mistakes on serial number

Salz, Rich rsalz at akamai.com
Sun Aug 20 13:50:33 UTC 2017


If you generate 19 bytes or RAND output, it will never exceed 20 bytes encoded.

OpenSSL will be generating 159 bits of RAND output, so that it will never exceed 20 bytes encoded. The command-line RAND program is bytes, the C API is bits.
 



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