A Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is a blacklist of revoked or compromised serial numbers of certificates. As a serial number has no direct relationship to a certificate and can be fabricated in a compromised CA, it is considered a weak blacklist.
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How to verify Certificate Revocation List(s) against multiple certification paths
In a recent question, I outlined the steps for verifying a wildcard SSL certificate for connecting to PostgreSQL from a remote client (using the same wildcard certificate I use for my web server). Although I resolved that problem, one lingering…

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Keeping revocation lists up to date on Debian
I am using Debian Linux on several machines with different services (Apache, Freeradius, etc...) together with a Windows Server 2008R2 CA. I install the CA certificate by downloading it to /usr/local/share/ca-certificates and then calling…

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Updating IIS' default CRL (Certificate Revocation List)
I'm in the process of creating a (IIS 8.5) web server which will require client authentication. Client authentication will be carried out using client certificates which will be issued by a third party CA.
I want to be able to do the…

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Revoke multiple client certs signed by one CA: only the first one got denied?
OS: Ubuntu 12.04
OpenVPN version: 2.2.1-8
Setup: one CA cert, one server cert, multiple client certs
Server config:
port 1194
proto udp
dev tun
keepalive 10 120
comp-lzo
user nobody
group nogroup
persist-key
persist-tun
status…

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Windows 2012 SSTP The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline
In order to get rid of "Error 0×80092013: The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline" you have to install base/delta CRLs on the client you want to connect to the VPN server...
However, it would…

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How Can I Disable CRL Checks For A Windows 2008 App Using WinHTTP?
I've got a Windows 2008 server with an app that uses WinHTTP for SSL sessions. The server is isolated from the internet but still tries to connect to CRL distribution points, which leads to some timeouts.
Since the server has no access to the…

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Maximum Size of CRL
Is there a CRL size that is beyond a practical limit? I did not find anything in the RFC. Is there any limit at all on the size of CRLs?

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Implications of Root CA without CRL
I'm currently setting up a PKI for my company and while I have come up with a good layout and planned the overall policy of certificate issuance, I'm still puzzled by what role the CRL plays.
By looking at other root CA certificates installed in…

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CRL Check Questions
Windows XP | IE 7
Hi guys,
From time to time, I'm seeing the following error come up:
Revocation information for the
security certificate for this site is
not available. Do you want to
proceed?
However when I manually try retrieving the…

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NGINX Client Certificate with Indirect CRL
I'm trying to implement mTLS using Nginx SSL Module. Everything works fine until I give Nginx CRL files concatenated in PEM format because one of the CRL is an Indirect CRL.
The chain for a leaf certificate will look like this:
Root -> CA1 -> CA2 ->…

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How does certutil determine that a cert is revoked
I'm testing that an x509 certificate can be correctly determined to be revoked. I'm taking the cert from https://revoked.badssl.com and verifying it via certutil. When my system is online, it seems to pull the CRL and determine that it is revoked. I…

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CRL revocation check failed
Issue with crl revocation check.
I can telnet target server on port 80.
I can download crl with internet explorer.
But when i launch certutil :
C:\Users\Administrateur\Desktop>certutil -urlfetch -verify alex.cer
Émetteur:
CN=get-SRV-DC-CA
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CRL Checking and Proxy Server Authentication
We have an issue with our corporate Windows 10 clients checking Certificate Revocation Lists. When accessing websites or logging into apps etc we are seeing the popup message "Revocation Information for the security certificate for this site is not…

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RabbitMQ CRL Configuration
I've been trying to find available options for configuring CRL checking within RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ in turn seems to rely on Erlang's SSL library. Unfortunately, knowing very little about Erlang, so it has been difficult for me to understand:
The…

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wininet 12057 error contacting crl server
My employer's client side application is failing when initiating ssl connection. It uses wininet and it fails on error 12057, certification revocation server is not available.
Although crl url carried in certificate is available from that machine.…

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