[AG-TECH] Re: certificate issues

[Matthew Martinez]

> is the clock right on biochem?
>
> At 09:35 AM 6/17/2004, Matthew Martinez wrote:
>> > They typically should be; I think the default is to make the starting
>> time
>> > the  current time. How are you creating them?
>> >
>> > At 09:29 AM 6/17/2004, you wrote:
>> >>i understand now, i apologize. my certificates don't become valid till
>> >> the
>> >>next day. i thought they became valid as soon as they were signed. the
>> >>timestamps don't match up, you are right. my apologies.
>> >
>>i'm creating them with these three commands:
>>
>>matthew at biochem:~/ca$ openssl req -new -keyout <filename_key.pem> -out
>><filename_req.pem> -days 360 -config openssl.cnf
>>
>>
>>matthew at biochem:~/ca$ cat <filename_key.pem> <filename_req.pem> >
>><filename.pem>
>>
>>
>>matthew at biochem:~/ca$ openssl ca -out <filename_cert.pem> -config
>>openssl2.cnf -infiles <filname.pem>
>

yeah, (09:42 Thursday June 17, 2004) but on the timestamp on my cert, it
says Not Valid Before: 13:21:36 06/17/04