On 2010-04-11 22:36 PST, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> Kurt, I suggest you try posting this again, without the image, but WITH
>> the certificate that caused Certificate Patrol to complain. As it is,
>> there's no information in this posting with which anyone can help you.
>
> That would be the PEM file I placed in the directory.
>
> https://www.seifried.org/tmp/certificate-patrol/easyweb36x.tdcanadatrust.com.pem
That certificate contains two dates, both encoded as "UTC Time" fields.
Both are strings. The strings are:
100315000000Z
110419235959Z which are of the form
yymmddhhmmssZONE
UTC Time fields have only a 2 digit year.
IIRC, numbers less than 50 are presumed to be nn+2000 and
numbers greater than 49 are presumed to be nn+1900.
So, those dates above are 2010-03-15 00:00:00 UTC and
2011-04-19 23:59:59 UTC.
I'm pretty sure Mozilla software handles that just fine.
Evidently that add-on can't handle them. :-/
There is another preferred syntax for dates in certificates, known as the
GeneralizedTime. Its format is ccyymmddhhmmssZONE. It MUST be used to
represent dates past 2049 or before 1950.
>> So, it sounds like this is not a complaint about any Mozilla software,
>> e.g. Firefox or Thunderbird, but rather a complaint about an add-on named
>> Certificate Patrol (of which I'd never heard before reading your message).
>> If so, I suspect this mailing list/newsgroup is the wrong place for your
>> complaint. The people who run the addons server don't participate in this
>> list/newsgroup.
>
> Right but I can't find any contact info for certificate patrol and I
> figured if anyone knew about it, they're probably on this list. That
> and I couldn't find an add-ons mailing list (how does on get on
> contact with them?). The word "contact" doesn't occur at
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ and so on.
Maybe you should take that up on mozilla.governance.
> If you know how to contact the add-ons people that'd be nice to know.
Alas, I don't. Sorry. Some people who develop addons hang out in
mozilla.dev.extensions. Maybe the people who run addons.m.o are there, too.
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