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Update doc/ca.pod to clarify description for dates #3895

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"Note" part is based on PR #3566

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Based on RFC 5280, since OpenSSL 1.1.1, the certificate validity period
(specified by any of B<-startdate>, B<-enddate> and B<-days>) will be
enconded as UTCTime if the dates are earlier than 2049 (included), and as
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enconded ? ;)
than (year) 2049 ...

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Errr...

@InfoHunter InfoHunter force-pushed the ca-doc branch 2 times, most recently from f8c8c7f to db4b03c Compare July 10, 2017 03:13
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commit updated. @FdaSilvaYY

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Ping @openssl

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date is YYMMDDHHMMSSZ (the same as an ASN1 UTCTime structure).
date is YYMMDDHHMMSSZ (the same as an ASN1 UTCTime structure), or
YYYYMMDDHHMMSSZ (the same as an ASN1 GeneralizedTime structure). In
both formats, seconds SS and timzone Z must be presented.
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I think s/presented/present/ is better.

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date is YYMMDDHHMMSSZ (the same as an ASN1 UTCTime structure).
date is YYMMDDHHMMSSZ (the same as an ASN1 UTCTime structure), or
YYYYMMDDHHMMSSZ (the same as an ASN1 GeneralizedTime structure). In
both formats, seconds SS and timzone Z must be presented.
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(ditto)

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updated: change 'presented' to 'present'

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Let'e ping @openssl for an OMC approval.

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@@ -701,6 +705,13 @@ For example if the CA certificate has:

then even if a certificate is issued with CA:TRUE it will not be valid.

=head1 NOTE

Based on RFC 5280, since OpenSSL 1.1.1, the certificate validity period
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Call this HISTORY and start it as "Since OpenSSL version 1.1.1, the program follows RFC 5280 and ...."

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updated based on @richsalz 's comments.

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Delete 'version' to follow #3938

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Please re-confirm, @kaduk @richsalz

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richsalz commented Jul 15, 2017 via email

@dot-asm dot-asm added the approval: done This pull request has the required number of approvals label Jul 16, 2017
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looks like this could be merged now...

levitte pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 23, 2017
"Note" part is based on PR #3566

Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from #3895)
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thank you!

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@InfoHunter InfoHunter deleted the ca-doc branch July 23, 2017 13:43
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