Re: Requesting information on Time stamp authority certificate expiry.

Peter Gutmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.x509
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jim Schaad <[email protected]> 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.

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

Peter.

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