what happens when a digital certificate expires

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I think I'm forced to digitally sign my ClickOnce manifest and assembly for
a windows forms application (see yesterday's post, 'click once deployment
cannot continue'.

This seems like a stupid question, but in all the articles I've read, I
can't find what happens to a user when the digital certificate expires.

Does the application just fail?
Am i going to be scrambling to acquire a new certificate and publish updates
signed with the new certificate?
Will the application automatically update to the new version with the new
certificate, once it is published?
 
BillE said:
I think I'm forced to digitally sign my ClickOnce manifest and assembly for
a windows forms application (see yesterday's post, 'click once deployment
cannot continue'.

This seems like a stupid question, but in all the articles I've read, I
can't find what happens to a user when the digital certificate expires.

Does the application just fail?
Click to expand...

I don't know, but I suspect it would fail at some point, because it
doesn't have a valid certificate.
Am i going to be scrambling to acquire a new certificate and publish updates
signed with the new certificate?
Click to expand...
Will the application automatically update to the new version with the new
certificate, once it is published?
Click to expand...

I thought certificates were at the machine level. So it seems that the
user's workstation must be updated manually by the user.
 
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