Serial number mismatch?

[kgrimsby]

Hi,

I'm testing django-x509 for my application. Upon creating client certificate I noticed something strange regarding serial_number.

From database:
Serial number: 169979165402110668045607377783554886462
Certificate:
Data:
Version: 3 (0x2)
Serial Number:
88:77:73:03:c1:e5:4a:5c:81:4f:58:20:6d:cf:bf:01

88:77:73:03:c1:e5:4a:5c:81:4f:58:20:6d:cf:bf:01 = 181395223527710912757353954506106191617 (which is also the result i get from crypto (get_serial_number()).

So why isn't the serial number on the db entry and the certificate itself the same?

/Kristian