dates with SelfSign certificate and openssl

I was playing around with self-signings  certificates on openssl   and notice a day  typo  in the signed certificate. My goal was to see how many days can you set a certificate for.



OpenSSL> version
OpenSSL 0.9.8zg 14 July 2015


( notice the date and the cert import failure in  F5 BIGIP LTM the appliance was probably say WTF  51 days in  OCT?????  )










2799 years !





















So finally I was able to have the certificate signed and successfully imported. Look at the dates now.

Ken Felix

NSE ( network security expert) and Route/Switching Engineer
kfelix  -----a----t---- socpuppets ---dot---com

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