Certificates contain standard information about the entity they identify, such as the common name and organization name. The Netscape Signing Tool prompts you for this information when you run the command with the -G option. However, all of the requested fields are optional for test certificates. If you do not enter a common name, the tool provides a default name. All fields are optional.
Acceptable characters are numbers, letters, spaces, and apostrophes.
To create a file for this purpose, enter each of the seven input fields, in order, on a separate line. Make sure there is a newline character at the end of the last line. The password will still be read from the console unless you use the -p option to give the password on the command line. If you do not install the certificate and keys in Communicator at the time you create them, or if you want to install them in additional copies of Communicator on other machines, you can use the x509.cacert file that signtool generates automatically when it creates the certificate. The file can be read into any copy of Communicator if the file is posted on a web page.