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Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] X.509: Handle midnight alternative notation in GeneralizedTime

From David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] X.509: Handle midnight alternative notation in GeneralizedTime
Date 2016-01-20 16:30 +0100
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Rudolf Polzer <rpolzer@google.com> wrote:

> As for 24:xx:yy times - I'm split about this. This code doesn't
> require a bijective decoding anyway (and if it did, 24:00:00 and
> 00:00:00 mapping to the same time64_t would be problem enough) so this
> is sure safe. On the other hand, a cert with a 24:xx:yy time that's
> not 24:00:00 probably should be regarded as invalid and not trusted
> for that reason alone.

Feel free to argue that one with Linus:-/

David

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Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] X.509: Handle midnight alternative notation in GeneralizedTime Rudolf Polzer <rpolzer@google.com> - 2016-01-20 16:10 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] X.509: Handle midnight alternative notation in GeneralizedTime David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-01-20 16:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] X.509: Handle midnight alternative notation in  GeneralizedTime One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-20 16:40 +0100

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