Reply to post: Re: Re: Confusion due to lax use of terminology in RFC?

Open-source 64-ish-bit serial number gen snafu sparks TLS security cert revoke runaround

diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge

Re: Re: Confusion due to lax use of terminology in RFC?

'1' is a perfectly valid cert serial number, yes. There is no problem with it. The problem is that no serial number would be generated with the top bit set, halving the number of available serial numbers and increasing the chance of collision.

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