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Re: [Openvpn-users] Getting rid of checking certificate validity time span?


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Getting rid of checking certificate validity time span?
  • From: Erich Titl <erich.titl@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:57:33 +0000

Hi

Konrad Karl wrote:
> Hi
> 
..

> 
> I admit but I have been hurt by a failing CMOS clock which required
> travelling (been locked out), and in addition, embedded systems might have no
> accurate wall clock so I will have to fake the date and time
> anyways.

I am using embedded systems all the time and those typically don't have
cmos clocks. I _always_ run a ntp server on those systems to have
accurate time.

> 
...

> 
> Thanks very much, I was not aware about these ????date options. It seems the
> next task is to figure out what is the equivalent of "infinity" specifying start and end 
> dates. :-) 
> 
> Given that I have full control over the CA, is there any security gain if the
> certs have date/time based validity?

AFAIK it is just that a X.509 certificate has a date/time based validity

cheers

Erich
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