Ceremony: generate serials with a prefix to guarantee length#8899
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Looks good to me, with the caveat that we're blocked on CP/CPS update.
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This borrows code very similar to that used in ca.go:generateSerialNumber to ensure that our CA serials always obviously contain the desired number of bytes, even if the random number generator gives us lots of leading zeroes that a DER encoding would elide.