MS self-generated X.509 validity?

[Eric Young]

On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, David K. Merriman wrote:
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> I've just had a chance to go through the SDK MS is giving away for their
> ActiveX package. Interestingly, there's a little utility included for
> generating X.509 certs. The read.me that is included claims that the certs
> so generated don't have any real validity, as they're not linked to anything
> in the known universe (paraphrasing :-).
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> My question is, is this an otherwise usable cert? I'll be happy to give
> anyone interested a copy of the files (shellback.cer and shellback.spc) I
> generated, if they'd like to examine/validate them.

Send them to me and I'll have a look and comment on them if you like.
I have a few tools for pulling apart X509/ASN.1 objects :-)

eric
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