OCSP Magic Number

The magic number is a value that states when CRLs will be processed over OCSP, specifically it is when the total number of cached OCSP responses from a single OCSP responder URL on behalf of a single certificate authority will stop performing OCSP and start processing CRLs. This will occur if the number of cached […]

New Certutil Argument – DownloadOCSP and Details of Caching issue with -Verify

During the development of my new ADCS Advanced PKI Training Class, I was working on creating a process to demonstrate how to manipulate the OCSP caching behavior in Windows. If you aren’t already aware, Microsoft OCSP responders use the expiration date of the authoritative CRL used for their answers as the expiration date (Next Update […]