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Harald Hein
For what it's worth, I just found a pointer to this on a news site:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57436
<quote>
A Class 3 and Class 2 Verisign PCA root certificate included in various
releases of the SDK and JRE (see Contributing Factors below) will
expire on January 7, 2004 and may result in the following upon
expiration:
1. Java applications and applets, deployed with the Java Plug-in or
Java Web Start which authenticate using certificates issued by the
expiring root certificates may encounter a security warning dialog box
indicating an authentication failure (see "Symptoms" section below.)
2. Java applications or applets using a Java Secure Socket Extension
(JSSE) TrustManager that do not recognize expired root certificates may
not be able to access web sites via https (see "Symptoms" section
below.)
....
</quote>
The link above contains more details and fixes (how to add new
certificates, or to download a new JRE or SDK ...)
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57436
<quote>
A Class 3 and Class 2 Verisign PCA root certificate included in various
releases of the SDK and JRE (see Contributing Factors below) will
expire on January 7, 2004 and may result in the following upon
expiration:
1. Java applications and applets, deployed with the Java Plug-in or
Java Web Start which authenticate using certificates issued by the
expiring root certificates may encounter a security warning dialog box
indicating an authentication failure (see "Symptoms" section below.)
2. Java applications or applets using a Java Secure Socket Extension
(JSSE) TrustManager that do not recognize expired root certificates may
not be able to access web sites via https (see "Symptoms" section
below.)
....
</quote>
The link above contains more details and fixes (how to add new
certificates, or to download a new JRE or SDK ...)