Re: Digital Certificate Expiration Utility

From: ps (fsck_at_smicker.com)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:53:03 -0700

in article 10hv5hpafblnpc7@corp.supernews.com, HoTShoT at @ wrote on 8/15/04
9:58 AM:

> If people are too stupid to read the email from the issuer, how will that
> help? You already get warnings from the issuer of the cert.
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>

It's not a matter of people being stupid, it's being proactive and knowing
when your own certs expire, not relying on someone else to do your job.
Maybe they'll send you an e-mail, maybe they won't. I'd prefer to control my
own destiny rather then explain to management that our VPN and SSL sites are
down because wah, Thawte never reminded me.

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