Re: Wrong system clock vs X.509 date specifiers

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On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:35:20 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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