Re: revoking expired certificates

[Kathiravan Velusamy]

Hi, The process of renewing a self-signed certificate once it has expired is as follows: 1)Revoke the existing (expired) certificate 2)Sign the (existing) CSR to create a new certificate To do this create renew-server-cert.sh and renew-user-cert.sh as follows $cp sign-server-cert.sh renew-server-cert.sh $cp sign-user-cert.sh renew-user-cert.sh $patch renew-server-cert.sh < server-patch $patch renew-server-cert.sh < user-patch And get the patchfile for renew-server-cert.sh in the following link                     http://mark.foster.cc/kb/tips.html                         Hope it is useful for you   Regards, Kathiravan www.visolve.com   ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerd Schering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:34 PM Subject: revoking expired certificates > Hi, > > It is possible (via the ca utility) to revoke certificates that already > have expired. > What for is this usefull? > Does this mean that evreything that has been signed or encrypted with > the public key belonging to the revoked certificate has to be considered > as obsolete? > > Gerd > -- > ------------------------------------------------------ > -- Gerd Schering, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  -- > ------------------------------------------------------ >   Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!