“Warning! Your root Certificate has expired!“
“Welcome back, everyone, to Sys Admin’s Corner. By now, you’ve
all built your OpenSSL libraries, compiled and played with your
cool, text-only SSL web browser–so now it’s time to build your own
SSL-enabled web server.”
“But first! No, this is not a Y2K bug, despite what it may look
like. Remember those web site certificates? Well, on December 31st,
1999, a number of site certificates are set to expire. These are
the root certificates included in your browser, the ones
pre-verified by a third party. In this case, the third party is
VeriSign. Expect some panic as people trying to do their Internet
banking find themselves being hit with a request to verify the
authenticity of an expired VeriSign root certificate.”