Is it necessary to generate a new SSL request each year?

[Robert Huff]

Dan Nelson writes:

>  > When buying a new SSL cert, I've been generating a new 
>  > request each year...  I am just about to buy another and it
>  > occurred to me that I'm entering the same info.  Do I really
>  > need a new request file each year?  Or can I just reuse the
>  > same one (presuming none of the info has changed.) 
>  
>  You can reuse the old one.

	I'm not an expert on these, but it was my understanding that
certificates carry in internal "expiration date" after which the
application may respond as it pleases.


				Robert Huff