Certification Revocation is a process through which we make sure that certificates that are no longer valid are not used by the relying clients
Questions tagged [certificate-revocation]
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How to revoke an openssl certificate when you don't have the certificate
I made an openssl certificate signed by the CA created on the local machine.
This certificate was deleted and I don't have it anymore.
It is impossible to create another certificate with the same commonName because openssl doesn't allow it and will…

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iPhone App Store 'Prepare for Upload' forever
I added two applications to my iTunes Connect account 10 days ago or so. One was a 'light' version, the other I'll charge for. The full version is already on the app store, but the status of the free version hasn't gotten any further than 'Prepare…

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Disabling certificate revocation checking for an application on Windows
I have a .NET 3.5 desktop application that had been showing periodic slow downs in functionality whenever the test machine it was on was out of the office.
I managed to replicate the error on a machine in the office without an internet connection,…

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How does certificate revocation work with intermediate CA's?
Suppose a PKI hierarchy like below.
root CA ==> inter-1 CA ==> user-1
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\======> inter-2 CA ==> user-2
My question is: does root CA also need to periodically download CRL from its children: inter-1 and inter-2?
Since user-1 and user-2 can…

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CRL and OCSP behavior of iOS / Security.Framework?
I'm trying to figure out what iOS' policy is when verifying certificates using Security.Framework regarding revocation of certificates.
I cannot find information about this in the docs for iOS.
In the context of an iPad project I'm working on at the…

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How to get CRL and OSCP Checking to work on iOS?
I can't get CRLs working on iOS. I've created two test cases. I have a certificate that is valid, issued by a CA. I have another certificate that is valid, issued by a CA, but the CA has added that certificate to its CRL.
I then setup a revocation…

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TCP Socket - Java SSL Certificate Revocation Checking
I'm currently writing a network TCP server using SSL. In production, we'll finally require clients to authenticate with a certificate.
In order to revoke certificates in case of a emergency, we would also like to establish a CRL.
My question is:…

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Offline revocation mode
My question is similar to this question.
I am trying to check revocation list only using the local CRL.
I am using X509Chain.Build() with the following parameters:
var chainMachine = new X509Chain(true);
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Java - Security - Retrieve CRL data from a Certificate
Goal: Retrieve the Certificate Revocation List information for a given Certificate.
Reason: When a java.security.cert.PKIXParameters object is set to enable checking of certificate revocation status via PKIXParameters#setRevocationEnabled(true); it…

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Android: where should I look for certificate revocation list?
I would like to get the list of all revoked certificates list downloaded on an Android device? I know that this class allows you to check if a certificate is revoked or not, but I want to get the whole list of revoked certificates. Is it possible?…

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Incompatibility between javax.security.cert.X509Certificate and java.security.cert.X509Certificate
I want to verify the X509 certificate presented by a client against a CRL to see if it has been revoked.
I have successfully instanciated a java.security.cert.X509CRL, but I am having problems retrieving the certificate of the session:
try {
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How to turn off certificate revocation for a WCF service's client?
How can I turn off certificate revocation for a WCF service's client?
The client proxy was generated by wsdl.exe and inherits SoapHttpClientProtocol.

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OCSP Revocation Check On Entire Certificate Chain
When you request for an OCSP server to check the revocation status of a cert, does it automatically check the revocation status of the entire chain?
i.e: if it says the cert is "good", then does that imply the entire chain is good?
I read the spec:…

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Accepting expired CRL with BouncyCastle
I'm validating X509 certificates offline with bouncy castle and have run into a problem with older CRLs. I haven't found a possibility yet to accept CRLs which are expired, in my opinion if a certificate was revoked, it should stay revoked after the…

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Howto create a certificate using openssl including a CRL distribution point?
I'm having problems using openssl to create a x509 certificate containing a crl distribution point for testing.
I've checked the documentation and found the configuration setting crlDistributionPoints for this purpose. Unfortunately openssl always…

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