i was too hasty posting the question - turns out my ca's certificate expired. my 
apologies for wasting time/bandwidth.

-a

"Leland V. Lammert" wrote:

> At 12:01 PM 1/3/00 , you wrote:
> >hi,
> >
> >i have an apache with mod ssl installed in november and i was using
> >self-signed openssl generated client certificate issued in december
> >expiring in december 2000. this morning i tried to connect over ssl to
> >my server and faild due to "expired certificate" :-(.  i just issued
> >myself another client certificate and it failed too. i'm going to
> >reissue the server certificate next. has anyone experienced this
> >problem?
> >
> >--
> >Aaron Stromas
> >Oracle Corp.
>
> I just tested ours (we also use self-certs), .. no problem, this one was recreated 
>ours on December 21.)
>
> I would expect:
>
> 1) You only generated a cert with 30 days expiration (created in November).
>
> 2) When you generated the second one, you might have accidentally changed the file 
>name or not restarted Apache, so the server did not see it.
>
>          HTH,
>
>         Lee
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