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Webstart security warning for "expired certificate" which is not expired

wleOct 11 2012 — edited Dec 6 2012
Occasionally we are seeing a security warning when starting a WebStart application on Java 7. The warning is about an expired certificate ("digital signature has expired").
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When looking at details offered by the dialog, the certificate period is not expired, actually. At the time of this writing, the certificate was recently renewed and starts about a week in the past, and ends in two years.
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First I thought that this might be caused by not signing the JNLP itself because the the security details warn about an unsigned JNLP:
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Furthermore, this post seems to indicate that JNLP signing might be mandatory:
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The JNLP spec describes this as optional. What else could be the problem here?

Edited by: wl on Oct 11, 2012 12:06 PM
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