[colug-432] expired keys

Rob Funk rfunk at funknet.net
Tue Jul 12 17:01:09 EDT 2016


Vince Herried wrote:
> messing with sendmail a google pointed me to a .mil web site
> when I go peek I get a warning about an expired key ( think that was the message
> )
> Is this an example of our stupid goverment IT organizations ?

I would assume that military and civilian government IT are completely
different. It's likely to be a different kind of stupid.

> here is the site that google pointed me to...
> https://www.hpc.mil/index.php/2013-08-29-16-03-23/networking-overview/2013-10-03
> -17-24-38/ipv6-knowledge-base-infrastructure/sendmail-and-ipv6

  openssl s_client -connect www.hpc.mil:443

Shows me this certificate chain:
 0 s:/C=US/O=U.S. Government/OU=DoD/OU=PKI/OU=OSD/CN=www.hpc.mil
   i:/C=US/O=U.S. Government/OU=DoD/OU=PKI/CN=DOD CA-28
 1 s:/C=US/O=U.S. Government/OU=DoD/OU=PKI/CN=DOD CA-28
   i:/C=US/O=U.S. Government/OU=DoD/OU=PKI/CN=DoD Root CA 2
 2 s:/C=US/O=U.S. Government/OU=DoD/OU=PKI/CN=DoD Root CA 2
   i:/C=US/O=U.S. Government/OU=DoD/OU=PKI/CN=DoD Root CA 2

That last one is self-signed. Most likely the people who use such
sites often are set up to accept it.

(When I look at it in Firefox I get an Unknown Issuer error.)

> kind of funny it is titled with ....; modernization program .....

Modernization and sendmail in the same document? Oh my.



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