LATEST CHATTY HEADER
Subscribe to Shacknews Mercury starting at $1/month!
Chrome Shack Community Guidelines Chatty Search
Scroll down to join the conversation.
New to Shacknews? Signup for a Free Account
Already have an account? Login Now
Subscribe to Shacknews Mercury starting at $1/month!
Chrome Shack Community Guidelines Chatty Search
Scroll down to join the conversation.
https://www.thawte.com/ssl-digital-certificates/technical-support/code/msauth.html#expires
I got worried this problem would affect a bunch of stuff and then wondered why Gears of War was the first problem I had heard of... Then I set my clock forward and found stuff signed by now-expired certs was still considered signed, and looked into what the deal was.
On my Vista machine there's a good example. Go to system32 and bring up the comctl32.ocx signature information. It was signed with a cert that expired in 2001 but the signature is still OK because it was also countersigned by VeriSign Time Stamping Service in 2000.
So digital signatures are NOT a DRM timebomb unless they're done incorrectly.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 5 replies.
The post has been reported. Thank you!
You must be logged in to post.
You must be logged in to post.