On Sep 8, 2010, at 8:51 AM, shibu nair via RT wrote:
> We found that the error is due to the –days 9999 option. And when we
> change the value 9996 this works fine. and 9999 was working fine three
> date before (03-sept-2010. it seems to be issue related to the date
> range.

Well, January 1st, 2038 is approximately 9999 days from now, and that's when 
the Unix time_t overflows 31 bits. IIRC, both of the actual certificate 
representations (UTCTIME and GENERALIZEDTIME) can handle timestamps outside 
that range, but openssl's ASN1_TIME_set() takes a time_t.


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