In my testing I have found one thing that people may not know of, but I
apologize if it is repetitive. In dealing with server certificates (ex.
Verisign), I have seen problem with communications in encrypted
sessions(HTTPS & Secure LDAP). The sessions will, in most cases not go
through if the Certificate authority on the client side of the communication
is expired. As an example:
Running Netscape proxy as a reverse proxy to a webserver, if the webserver
presents the proxy with a Verisign certificate, the proxy doesn't have any
CA certificate to match it against so the communication will be refused.
The certificates seems to expire conveniently on Dec 31 of 99 around 10pm.
This has been a major problem for me in the sense of servers talking to
servers. In the case of the client browsers, as long as you are on a newer
version of your browser these certificates should be fine. I hope this
explains the problem well enough to help give warning.
- Paul
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From: Joe Dauncey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 7:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Y2K Incidents
Hi,
I just saw this being discussed on the firewalls discussion list, so
apologies if this is repetitive.
What sort of things are any of you expecting over the Y2K period ?
Some people who make decisions in our place have bought into the idea that
the internet community will have nothing better to do over the few days
around Y2K than break into other peoples computers, whereas some others feel
they are more likely to spend it under the table in various stages of
unconsciousness ?!!
Anyway, any ideas ?
Cheers,
Joe Dauncey
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