Verisign CRL single point of failure

Rich Salz rsalz at datapower.com
Fri Jan 9 21:52:02 EST 2004


>   I'm not sure what the "no longer
>   dynamically changing" means, I assume they've made it even worse by giving
>   it a much larger expiry period, so your online check gives you the status
>   from last year instead of last week.

It means that they learned the lesson when the erroneously issued
two MSFT certificates:
        In the future, VRSN patches will be issued as MSFT
        software updates.

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Rich Salz                  Chief Security Architect
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