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The Windows 11 problem (www.spacebar.news)
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[โ€“] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It makes sense because all of our cryptography is based around time limits. If the system time is way off it can't verify the cryptographic signatures and it's not going to validate any certs since the time doesn't line up properly.