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authorMartin Sucha <anty.sk+git@gmail.com>2018-05-18 13:00:43 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2018-05-19 11:55:59 +0200
commit62314f705944a1c15c1664adf62d894449a430ae (patch)
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parent1e66c7e6e5bcfca4082c520d3bd970f39fa1751b (diff)
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doc: add note about CRL numbers to man page
Signed-off-by: Martin Sucha <anty.sk+git@gmail.com>
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@@ -1112,6 +1112,13 @@ encryption_key
# this is the 5th CRL by this CA
# The value is in decimal (i.e. 1963) or hex (i.e. 0x07ab).
# Comment the field for a time-based number.
+# Time-based CRL numbers generated in GnuTLS 3.6.3 and later
+# are significantly larger than those generated in previous
+# versions. Since CRL numbers need to be monotonic, you need
+# to specify the CRL number here manually if you intend to
+# downgrade to an earlier version than 3.6.3 after publishing
+# the CRL as it is not possible to specify CRL numbers greater
+# than 2**63-2 using hex notation in those versions.
#crl_number = 5
# Specify the update dates more precisely.