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 maintain revokation list for client certificates
I have a website running in Windows Server 2012, IIS.
User's are authenticated using client certificates.
I used to issue client certificates using Certificate Authority MMC snap-in.
Since the number of users is growing rapidly, I am now creating…

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How do I manually publish a CRL for a certificate?
I have setup a new server and installed Remote Access and Certificate Authority services so I can configure it as a VPN. I have created my own certificate through http://localhost/certsvr, and have imported into the Trusted Certificate Store.
My VPN…

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Windows Server 2003: Taking Root and Intermediate CA's offline causers faiure in Enterprise CA
I installed 3 CA's in lab environment:
SA Root CA
SA Intermediate CA
Enterprise CA (also DC)
The instructor recommends taking Root and Intermediate CA's offline once the Enterprise CA has been issued it's certificate.
I took Root and Intermediate…

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How to publish a CRL for an internal Windows certification authority?
I have an Active Directory domain with an Enterprise Root Certification Authority in it; the domain uses a private domain name ("domain.local"), and we also have a public domain name ("domain.com"). The domain contains the following…

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How can we clear CRL cache in Windows Server 008 using certutil command?
I know we can clear the CRL Cache in Windows Server 2008 using the certification authority UI. However, I want to automate the process and therefore looking a way to do it from command line. Is it possible using certutil or any other default…

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Considerations for certificate revocation for intermittently isolated ad-hoc networks
I'm trying to decide on a certificate revocation strategy for a solution I'm designing (that will utilize Dogtag PKI, per customer request). The obvious choices seem to be using a CRL or using OCSP. I'm trying to understand the practical…

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What should be the CRL publishing period for corporate environments?
I am trying to suggest a CRL publishing period for a Microsoft CA, the user certificates are going to be used for digital signature.There can be cases that a user certificate may be revoked.
Normally what is the period to define , so that I can…

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Need help figure out why I can logon to Windows with a revoked smartcard certificate
I am adding smart card login to our domain and have got almost everything working properly except that when I revoke the certificate on our Enterprise CA I can still log into computers.
I have checked that I can download the CRL using the link in…

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What is the best practice to handle expiring S/MIME mail certificates
where can I find info regarding the proper way to handle expiring mail certificates?
Here's the problem: our certificates for digitally signing mails expire after a year. If, a week before expiry, I revoke a certificate and create a new one,…

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How to Delete CRL Files in Local Cert Store
I need to import CRL files to a Bastion server that is not part of my environments domain. The CRL files are updated every few days so a new copy needs to be imported to the local cert store on the Bastion frequently.
I noticed when I do a fresh…

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Revoked certificate not getting into Microsoft CA CRL
I have a CA and an Active Directory + ADFS instances set up on a Windows Server 2016 machine. I issued a client certificate for one of the users (for smart card logon) and then revoked it. However, I'm still able to log in via the revoked…

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CRL distribution point with multiple names
I'd like to create a certificate with CRL discribution point, which contains multiple URLs (poiting to the same CRL, according to RFC 5280):
When OpenSSL parses such certificate, it shows something like this:
X509v3 CRL Distribution…

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OpenSSL invalid revocation date / update CRL?
I have an index.txt file where I changed the value of a certificate - whose certificate file I do not have - from V to R to revoke it.
The index.txt looks as follows exemplarily:
V 220303095424Z 123456 unknown /bla
R 220303104529Z …

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How to delay CRL Renewal
I have a 3 Tier PKI and I have issued 90,000+ certificates. Within 2 days Root and Policy CA CRL is getting expired and I can't renew the Root and Policy CA CRL before 2 months so what is the best approach to handle this situation ? Also, what will…
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openssl ca -gencrl is not working at all
Out of the blue, all clients cannot connect because the crl has expired. I am unable to generate a new crl. I currently have OpenVPN configured to ignore it for the time being because clients must be able to connect. Unfortunately, until this gets…

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