From: james <james@e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:13:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added note about alternative version of easy-rsa
X-Git-Tag: v2.1_rc5~16
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eba4632dc1c13ce85d519a722c08181ec77ff09c;p=thirdparty%2Fopenvpn.git

Added note about alternative version of easy-rsa
that supports subjectAltName for multi-domain
web certificates.


git-svn-id: http://svn.openvpn.net/projects/openvpn/branches/BETA21/openvpn@2632 e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5
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diff --git a/easy-rsa/2.0/README b/easy-rsa/2.0/README
index 68e6bcbf6..bde0d8c0c 100644
--- a/easy-rsa/2.0/README
+++ b/easy-rsa/2.0/README
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ EASY-RSA Version 2.0-rc1
 
 This is a small RSA key management package, based on the openssl
 command line tool, that can be found in the easy-rsa subdirectory
-of the OpenVPN distribution.
+of the OpenVPN distribution.  While this tool is primary concerned
+with key management for the SSL VPN application space, it can also
+be used for building web certificates.
 
 These are reference notes.  For step-by-step instructions, see the
 HOWTO:
@@ -63,6 +65,12 @@ Release Notes for easy-rsa-2.0
 
 * PKCS#11 support was added.
 
+* For those interested in using this tool to generate web certificates,
+  A variant of the easy-rsa package that allows the creation of multi-domain
+  certificates with subjectAltName can be obtained from here:
+
+  http://www.bisente.com/proyectos/easy-rsa-subjectaltname/
+
 INSTALL easy-rsa
 
 1. Edit vars.