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Re: PKI operators anyone?

  • From: Joel Jaeggli
  • Date: Thu Sep 06 03:42:44 2007

[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
>