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by Chris Faylor, Feb 02, 2009 10:11am PSTFollowing an expired digital certificate that rendered the PC release of Gears of War unplayable after January 28, developer Epic has explained exactly what happened.
"The online cheat detection features in Gears of War for Windows are based on digital signatures. Well, we made an embarrassing mistake: we signed the executable with a certificate that expired in a way that broke the game," Epic VP Mark Rein told IGN.
"We know how much this situation sucks, and we apologize for the inconvenience," he added, vowing that Epic is working on the issue and hopes to have it fixed "very soon."
In the meantime, those hoping to play are advised to set their computer's system clock back to some time before January 28, which will circumvent the so-called Y2K9 bug.
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This problem only occurred because someone fucked up and didn't timestamp the certificate. Timestamped certificates never expire.
More detail here, inc. a link to an explanation on one of the certificate authority's sites:
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19093791#itemanchor_19093791
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