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Hello Gert,

thanks for your reply.




Am 01.04.14 15:39, schrieb Gert Doering:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 01:15:01PM +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
>> If so I would like to be able to disable it for just 1 client
>> via a ccd file for instance. That way I do not have to restart
>> the entire service and would not compromise any other
>> connection.
> 
> You can't do this on the server, as it's the client who checks the 
> cert validity (for the server cert - the server check's the 
> validity of the client cert, but if the server clock is right, it 
> will be fine).
> 
> As the client checks the server certificate before doing anything 
> else, like "trust information handed out by the server", there is 
> not anything the server can do here.
> 


You`re right. The client checks the certificate time previously, not
the server.

> (What OpenWRT does to work around this issue is to periodically 
> save a timestamp to a file, and on boot, ensure that the time is 
> not earlier than this timestamp - if it's earlier, set the time to 
> that, if later, leave it alone.  Precisely for such cases, with 
> embedded systems with no hardware clock, and possibly unreachable 
> ntp servers for whatever reason...)
That`s sounds for me as a good workaround.

Thanks for the hint.

Michael

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