Lotus Nut

Earlier today I was renewing the SSL certificate for BleedYellow's IHS server. But I ran into a slight issue in that the IBM SSL Key Management utility (ikeyman) was only giving me the choice of 512 or 1024 bit key length. But now, 2 years later (wow, time flies!), GoDaddy requires 2048 or 4096 bit requests and does not accept a 1024 bit request. This is good to know, for sure! After a quick use of my google-fu, I was able to find this technote and after installing the Java SDK 1.5 SR6 Cumulative Fix for WebSphere Application Server I was immediately able to create the 2048 bit request. Happy SSL'ing!