Recently the sites I run started getting this odd cert error. "The certificate has expired or is not yet valid". I looked at the expiry date and it seems ok. So I went off to do some googling for my info. Could not find a thing. My boss was still not understanding. I thought maybe it had something to do with the diginotar hack. (I still suspect there might be something here)
Anyway revisiting this issue two weeks later, I finally found this.
So looking at the verisign site I found that the advisory was indeed dated Oct 20th 2011. They expired it on Oct 24th. 4 days...Really?
It still appears that verisign revoked the intermediate cert and left all their customers hanging… No sort of warning or notice about when this would happen or what to do about it. You would think that if they issued a cert to you that at some point they would contact you to tell you it's not good. I understand they had to revoke it... that's a whole other issue. What I'm annoyed with is their lack of communication. Email is a powerful thing...
