From: David Mathog [mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 11:55 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: verisign root certificate expiration, older browsers, VMS

mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu wrote:
> 
> I saw a note the other day stating that the verisign certificate in older
> versions of Navigator has a Y2K problem - it expires then.  For other
> platforms the fix is to download a newer version of the browser.  I'm at
> home now - can anyone test that the VMS 3.03 browser still works with
> verisign certified SSL pages?  If it doesn't (which is what I expect given
> the general nature of the Verisign problem), does anybody have a workaround?
> Sadly, downloading a newer version of the browser is not an option.  When
> this happened with the Thawte cert. it was possible to install a new one,
> but Verisign's may be engineered into the program differently.
> 

Ok, I'm at work now, and just checked.  Yes, the verisign certs (there
are two) in Navigator 3.03 (VMS) are both expired.  So are many of the
other certs it shipped with.  To check do

 Options->Security preferences...->site certificates

Hey OpenVMS guys, I know you're waiting for Mozilla to gel, but in the
immediate meantime, how about putting a replace set of certs up
somewhere that we can download?

Thanks,

David Mathog
mathog@caltech.edu