[7u] 8020940: Valid OCSP responses are rejected for backdated enquiries

Valerie (Yu-Ching) Peng valerie.peng at oracle.com
Mon Jul 22 22:11:44 UTC 2013


The changes look fine.

However, the dateCheckedAgainst argument for method SingleResponse 
constructor becomes obsolete and not used at all.
Should it be removed from the method signature, i.e. any reason to keep 
this?

Thanks,
Valerie
On 07/19/13 09:39, Vincent Ryan wrote:
> Please review the following change to correct the handling of backdated OCSP requests:
>
> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8020940  [not yet visible]
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vinnie/8020940/webrev.00
>
> It modifies the OCSP client to verify the validity interval for an OCSP response relative to the current time.
> Previously it was relative to the requested time.
> Thanks.
>




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