Re: Digital Certificate Expiration Utility
From: Colin McKinnon (colin.thisisnotmysurname_at_ntlworld.deletemeunlessURaBot.com)
Date: 08/15/04
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:48:33 GMT
ps spilled the following:
> 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.
>>
>
> 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.
Yeah, but there are so many other things which need to happen at specific
times throughout the life of any sort of enterprise (DNS expiry, time to
replace hard disks, renew passwords...), surely it's a better idea to have
a proper diarying system which can address all of them than a program which
only fixes one.
C.
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