Questions tagged [crl]

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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