[Openswan Users] Certified Validity

[Paul Wouters]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Mauricio Perez wrote:

> I have a freswan VPN , and everytime i create a certified it says that's not
> going to be valid for about 8 hours,


> is there any way to make it valid the very moment i created it ???

Are you creating it on a machine that is in a different time zone from
where the certificate will be deployed? As in 8 hours time difference perhaps?
It's a limitation of X.509.

Ofcourse, this assumes both machines are on NTP and have the proper time.

Paul