full-disclosure - Re: Expired certificate

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:12:34 +0200
From: Jan Schejbal <jan.mailinglisten@...glemail.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Expired certificate

Am 2010-07-16 20:06, schrieb Dimitry Andric:
> That is definitely not the only reason.  The longer a certificate (or
> actually, any 'secret key') is being used, the larger the probability
> that it will be compromised, either by an opponent brute-forcing it, or
> by good ole' human error.

The problem with this is, that often it seems to be usual to "renew"
certificates. I.e. CA gets cash, CA issues a new cert on EXACTLY THE
SAME KEY with just a different serial and validity...

Gruß
Jan

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