using cert in SP metadata for encryption

[Peter Schober]

* Craig Pluchinsky <craigp at iup.edu> [2016-11-18 21:15]:
> the certs they had in the metadata were set to expire in a couple years.

The expiration date will be ignored by Shibboleth (in all but the most
unusual deployments) and "expire in a couple years" will be true of
basically all certs you will encouter, whether they're self-signed or
from some CA (commercial or otherwise).
So not sure what that's about.
-peter