Re: [openssl-users] Doubt regarding O-SSL and setting the duration of certificates

2017-09-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 09/13/2017 09:31 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: > The devices never test out the lifetime of their certs. That is up to Exactly... (Do you think about the MacGyver/StarTrek/A-Team/Leverage/MissionImpossible plot line that goes along with

Re: [openssl-users] Doubt regarding O-SSL and setting the duration of certificates

2017-09-13 Thread Erwann Abalea via openssl-users
> Le 13 sept. 2017 à 17:08, Michael Wojcik a > écrit : > >> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-boun...@openssl.org] On Behalf >> Of Michael Richardson >> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:32 >> >> I suspect that the value: literal value

Re: [openssl-users] Doubt regarding O-SSL and setting the duration of certificates

2017-09-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 09/13/2017 09:39 AM, Salz, Rich via openssl-users wrote: An X509v3 certificate has “notBefore” and “notAfter” fields. If either of those is not present, then it is not an X509v3 certificate. The time marked by those fields is the validity period. If you want “never expires” X509v3

Re: [openssl-users] Doubt regarding O-SSL and setting the duration of certificates

2017-09-13 Thread Michael Wojcik
> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-boun...@openssl.org] On Behalf > Of Michael Richardson > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:32 > > I suspect that the value: literal value 1231235959Z will simply come to > mean "the end of time", even after the year 10,000.  It has a well known

Re: [openssl-users] Doubt regarding O-SSL and setting the duration of certificates

2017-09-13 Thread Salz, Rich via openssl-users
An X509v3 certificate has “notBefore” and “notAfter” fields. If either of those is not present, then it is not an X509v3 certificate. The time marked by those fields is the validity period. If you want “never expires” X509v3 certificates, the best you can do it put a very large value in the

Re: [openssl-users] Doubt regarding O-SSL and setting the duration of certificates

2017-09-13 Thread Michael Richardson
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > The devices never test out the lifetime of their certs. That is up to Exactly... (Do you think about the MacGyver/StarTrek/A-Team/Leverage/MissionImpossible plot line that goes along with each engineering decision?...) > validating

Re: [openssl-users] Doubt regarding O-SSL and setting the duration of certificates

2017-09-13 Thread Alejandro Pulido
Hello! Thanks for the response. I was thinking of setting the duration fo the certificate to infinite, i.e. the Validity period set to infinite. Because in the information I have, the only possibility is to set the duration (in days) with the command, but the command doesn't allow to put