On Monday, June 16, 2003 at 10:25 (which was Monday, June 16, 2003 at 19:25 where I am) Ben Mills [BM] wrote:
> The certificate is valid from June 2003-June 2006. You can view it at > https://www.hwy39.net:80/mail . OK, that had me jumping through some hoops as for (imho good) reason of security Opera refuses https-connections to port 80. Had to use Internet Explorer to get to this site; imported the certificate and it displays OK. Exported it to DER-encoded X.509 so I could import in The Bat!, which does indeed show the dates you saw in the log earlier. Just for verification, I then imported the certificate that I exported from IE into Opera to see what it showed and Opera shows yet another set of dates: march 6, 15.01.47 2020 to june 6 14.01.47 2020. I cannot determine what was used to generate this certificate, but it would seem that the way the date is encoded in the certificate, is ambiguous. I'll be using [EMAIL PROTECTED] (24-hour format) below. Tool IE The Bat! Opera From [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:01:47 To [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:01:47 It's almost as if bits of information got shifted around. Only Opera shows the time to be listed in GMT; this could account for the '2' difference in the time component. In the case of Opera, the year (omitting the century) seems to have migrated to the month, the month to the day, the day to the hours, the hours to the minutes and the minutes to the seconds, discarding the original seconds. The difference of 10 years in The Bat! eludes me, but I've never seen a certificate behave this way. The fact that Opera too displays (yet another set of) wrong dates for the certificate is in my opinion an indication that something weird is happening with the certificate. > Anyhow Eudora and a couple of Linux mail clients ( Kmail maybe ) all > work with it fine. Are they? I don't have either of these two handy so I can't check, but how do they see the dates of the certificate. It could be that they only check for expiration, which in the cases of both Opera and The Bat! is way into the future here, so if an application doesn't take the From date of the certificate into consideration, this could result in 'working fine' when it actually just displays a flaw in those applications. -- Greetings, Maurice Using The Bat! v1.63 Beta/10 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
