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Re: re. date format

To: <spki@c2.net>, "Michael Richardson" <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
Subject: Re: re. date format
From: "Alain Zahm" <zahm@sophia.sema.fr>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:14:03 +0100
Sender: owner-spki@c2.net

It is not sure that this assumption is right. Certificates may be stored in
advance to avoid latency. So a Certificate may be valid in the future only.

Alain Zahm

>   I would also imagine most certificates to be valid from "now" to
> "now"+delta. And so long as the certificate that we are delegating is
> valid during that period, there is no reason to actually read the
> dates from that cert.
> 
> ]       ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine.           |  SSH
IPsec  [
> ]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON   
|international[
> ] mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |strong
crypto[
> ] panic("Just another NetBSD/notebook using, kernel hacking, security
guy");  [
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: 2.6.3ia
> Charset: latin1
> Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface
> 
> iQB1AwUBNHp5jcmxxiPyUBAxAQHEkQL/ZATrRDer9n1IfYgUbWCb3/HxyIHyYCjZ
> 5CAlefMGc7GgpOMVy+gMoymFYyhTrDsYMu6g/2cFSPUVDgrSCdZ8HAvJCE8N2RLW
> 02JpMhevjfkTbfAvw2hbGGScb1kdplVz
> =0rq0
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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