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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It need only check at install time.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Correction: SSL certificates can expire before someone would want to continue being able to install any given app.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Sure, the developer needs to keep the certificate up to date and re-sign the APK on occasion.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    So any APK I download will just expire at some point in time that's probably really annoying to know, and then I have to dig through the internet again so I can install the app again?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Another option is to allow otherwise-valid signatures after expiration. It's generally still possible to check them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    That completely nullifies the entire point of signature validations.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    How? Expiration doesn't grant an unauthorized party access to the private key.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's zero cryptographic reason to have a signed date at that point.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Which nullifies the point of certificates having an expiration date (limited window for exploiting a compromised certificate, possibility of domains changing hands), not the point of validating the signature (tie responsibility for apps to who owned a domain on a specific date, allow third parties to create blacklists of bad developers).

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