On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:06:07AM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

> Higher-level tools can check the "days" argument before invoking
> the openssl apps layer.  It should not be necessary to write C code
> to generate well-formed if corner-case certificates.

Also there is far more risk in generating a certificate that lasts
too long, than one that is never valid.  Should there also be
warnings for 100-year certificates?  1 day certificates?  The CLI
is not an interface for naive users.  It is a toolkit for shell
scripts.

-- 
        Viktor.
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