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Re: [pkix] Requesting information on Time stamp authority certificate expiry.

Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> Sat, 06 January 2018 04:00 UTC

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From: Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com>
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Subject: Re: [pkix] Requesting information on Time stamp authority certificate expiry.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Gutmann [mailto:pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz]
> Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 6:27 PM
> To: Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com>; 'Anoop Gulati'
> <anoopgulati@gmail.com>; pkix@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [pkix] Requesting information on Time stamp authority
> certificate expiry.
> 
> Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> writes:
> 
> >The correct rule ought to be, when the TSA certificate expires the
> >signature expires and it no longer tells you anything more.
> 
> Just because the cert has expired doesn't mean the signature automatically
> invalidates itself.  The TSA countersig still tells you that the signed
item was
> OK at time X, if you securely store a copy of it after the expiry time (or
> countersign it yourself, or whatever) you can refer back to your
known-good
> copy to check that it's still OK.

I was referring to the TSA signature not the original signature.  On a new
copy you cannot assume anything.  I agree that if you securely store the
item while it was originally good then you can still make some assumptions
about it still being the same as it originally was.


> 
> It's really an ecumenical matt^H^H^Hpolicy issue as to how you manage
this.
> 
> Peter.

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