Expired SSL Certificates

When I'm doing my thing on customer projects, and there's some SSL stuff involved, I always keep reminding them to make sure that they renew their certificates in time. Why, because they almost always forget it the renew them in time, and after the expire stuff stops working, and they call us.

Guess what? My certificates expired this evening, so I got numerous warnings and errors in several applications that use those SSL certificates. Thankfully I run my own CA (XCA), and I documented where I use them, and how to replace them, so I was back in business in 10 minutes.

Lesson(s) learned: make a notification in my calendar to replace them ahead of time.

Posted on January 5, 2014 and filed under Security, Tips'n Tricks.