Security: Entrust Chain Certificates expire on 01 January 2006, 18:59 PM EST
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Abstract
On 01 January 2006, 18:59 PM EST, Entrust Chain Certificates expire. If your security is enabled using these expired certificates, your servers will not initialize and your running servers will stop operating.
 
Content
When the certificates expire, the following error message is logged in the HTTP error.log file:

[Sun Jan 01 18:59:02 2006] [error] SSL0221E: SSL Handshake Failed, Invalid date.

To verify that the Entrust Chain Certificate has expired, perform the following:
  1. Open your current KDB file.
  2. Select the Signer Certificates tab.
  3. Double-click the Entrust Chain Certificate. If the Certificate has expired, you should receive a message indicating that the Certificate has expired.

Solution
If you have verified that the Entrust Chain Certificate has expired using the preceding steps, then visit the Entrust Web site to obtain new certificates.

Note: IBM® does not provide this certificate in the base level of the GSKit.
 
 
Cross Reference information
Segment Product Component Platform Version Edition
Application Servers WebSphere Application Server IBM HTTP Server
 
 


Document Information


Product categories: Software > Application Servers > Distributed Application & Web Servers > IBM HTTP Server > SSL
Operating system(s): HP-UX
Software version: 1.3.26
Software edition:
Reference #: 1227001
IBM Group: Software Group
Modified date: Jan 3, 2006