cert expiration warning 7 years too early

sneakyimp · 05-20-2008, 06:08 PM

I've got a site hosted on a dedicated server and there are a variety of pages served through https and the mail uses ssl. I'm getting warnings that my certificate expires today despite the fact that I purchased the cert with a 10-year expiration date. I still have 7 years left! Can anyone tell me what might cause this immediate expiration warning?

b0uncer · 05-21-2008, 02:00 PM

Well since you purchased it (and paid for it, right?), the best place to ask for help is the place that sold you the certificate. They can (read: must, if they sold it) tell why it's doing that, and at minimum fix the problem for you.

EDIT: your information is quite minimal here; what certificate? what server? what OS? etc..

sneakyimp · 05-21-2008, 02:16 PM

THANKs for your response. Apparently I was misinformed and the cert has actually expired. My buddy's buying a new one.

Thanks b0uncer.

sundialsvcs · 05-21-2008, 04:00 PM

I wondered. Certificate makers usually protect their revenue streams fairly closely, making you buy the same thing over and over again every couple of years, not every ten. (Why? Because they can.)