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SubjectRe: Wrong system clock vs X.509 date specifiers
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:35:20 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Generate a certificate that is valid from a few minutes before the
> > wallclock time. It's a certificate policy question not a kernel hackery
> > one.
>
> That doesn't seem to be possible with openssl req. What would you recommend?

LD_PRELOAD ? or fixing it if GNUTLS certtool can't do the needed. We
shouldn't botch security checks in kernel code to work around crappy
userspace tools.

Alan




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