Re: Online Certificate Revocation Protocol

Massimiliano Pala <madwolf@hackmasters.net> Fri, 08 June 2001 09:27 UTC

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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:48:21 +0200
From: Massimiliano Pala <madwolf@hackmasters.net>
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Hansen Wang wrote:
[..]
> 
> Isn't that what OCSP supposed to do? RFC 2560
> 
> 2560 X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate
[...]
> Also Certificate Revocation Status is also a per request - per response
> system.

What I was talking about is a method to allow for standard revocation request
method to be adopted by a subject when asking the authority for revocation of
a specified certificate, not simply a method to ask for the state of a
certificate.

Let's informally call it "OCRP - Online Certificate Revocation Protocol".

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C'you,

	Massimiliano Pala

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