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Verisign intermediate certificate "has expired or is not yet valid".

The Verisign certificates, commonly used as an intermediate certificate authority for Internet facing websites all expired in January of this year.  This causes most browsers to display a warning when you first access the SSL-secured page. 

screenshot of browser certificate warnings

If you get the error above, you probably have a server that doesn't have the newer intermediate certificates.  I've had a few people ask me about this, so here are the links to Verisign's site to help.

http://searchsupport.verisign.com/content/kb/vs5781.html

https://www.verisign.com/support/site/caReplacement.html

Published 09 November 2004 11:43 by Stuart.Preston
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Stuart.Preston said:

Hi,

I ran into a similar problem when I accessed a secure site. It appeared that the site had the newer intermediate certificates -- but IE was doing some kind of caching.

Since I was the only one having this problem (I verified this by trying accessing the same site from from about six computers here) it seemed that all was well with the certificates on that site. Furthermore, I seemed to have no problems on firefox.

On IE, went to Tools -- Internet Options -- Content tab -- Click Certificates -- Intermediate Certification Authorities. Here I found two verisign entries expiring on 1/7/2004. I swatted them out, cleared my ssl cache, browser cache and restarted IE. Accessing the site again went through fine.

I just realized that this was the first time in the last year or so where I solved a problem without finding it on google :-)

thanks,
sai
November 23, 2004 16:04
 

CarnivorousCat said:

Thanks Stuart or (Sai?)

You comment helped a lot. Appreciate Solving problem without google and posting it over the net, So others can google it :-)

November 24, 2008 16:44
 

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