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[email protected] wrote: >>> I dont see verisign roots expiring every five years. >> I believe that they're on 30 years or so for the root CA >> certificates, and shorter periods for the intermediates. >> >> /John >> > > it was explained to me that the expiry date is after 2038 The verisign root CA public certs I have in my keyring that expire more than 10 years from now expire either 08/01/2028 or 07/16/2036 which is well before 03:14:07 UTC jan 19 2038. Since my arch uses a signed 64bit int for time_t I'm assuming calculations beyond that magic number won't be an issue for validating the contents of my keyring. > --bill >
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