 to the certificate, making it a &quot;pre-certificate&quot; (see RFC6962). This can be submitted to Certificate Transparency logs in order to obtain signed certificate timestamps (SCTs). These SCTs can then be embedded into the pre-certificate as an extension, before removing the poison and signing the certificate.</p>

<p>This implies the <b>-new</b> flag.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="utf8"><b>-utf8</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>This option causes field values to be interpreted as UTF8 strings, by default they are interpreted 