Revocation
Certificate Transparency Enforcement and Microsoft CAs – Oct 2017 Deadline
To address some weaknesses in the public PKI trust process, Certificate Transparency (CT) was created to make it easier to detect and track fraudulent certificate issuance and use. The intent is that a small collection of log servers would contain information about valid certificates and browsers can check the log to see if a given certificate…
Read MoreMicrosoft OCSP Responders – Trust, Renewals and RFC 6960
Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) provides an efficient mechanism for distributing certificate revocation information. When certificates are exchanged and validated, computers need to determine if the certificate has been revoked – meaning the CA has reason to consider the certificate as untrusted. This often placed in a Certificate Revocation List (CRL). Clients download this potentially large CRL…
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