I have got the point. If YY is less than 50, the year shall be interpreted as 20YY.
Thank you for the accurate guidance.
Best regards.
Nelson.
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From: Dr Stephen Henson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 17 December, 1999 20:43
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Subject: Re: apps\ca Y2K bug
Nelson Alves da Silva Filho wrote:
>
> POSSIBLE bug regarding the ca application (OpenSSL-0.9.4).
>
> I think the function ASN1_UTCTIME_set_string (a_utctm.c) is not Y2K safe and,
>consequently, the "startdate" and "enddate" entries of openssl.cnf ca section as well.
>
Check out the description of UTCTime in RFC2459. If you still think
there's a problem please be a bit more specific.
Steve.
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