linux-kernel - Re: Wrong system clock vs X.509 date specifiers

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Message-ID: <5061D12F.1000308@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:43:43 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
CC:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au, pjones@...hat.com,
	jwboyer@...hat.com, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...ux-nfs.org
Subject: Re: Wrong system clock vs X.509 date specifiers

Il 25/09/2012 17:35, David Howells ha scritto:
> Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.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?

Disgusting, but: add an LD_PRELOAD library that returns a time well in
the past.

Paolo
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