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Re: [Sidrops] what to do when the CRL is hosed?

Oleg Muravskiy <oleg@ripe.net> Wed, 26 February 2020 08:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Sidrops] what to do when the CRL is hosed?
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I tend to agree with Steve and George that manifests could not replace CRLs. And while the rfc5280/section-6.3 only demands to fetch the (time-wise) valid CRL and does not specify what to do if that isn’t possible, my interpretation of this section is that the validator should not accept/ignore a CRL past its validity period.

With regard to manifests, the number of inconsistencies between the content of a manifest and a repository, the absence of rules of how to handle these inconsistencies, and as a result, the complexity of processing manifests during validation is much higher than the complexity of processing the CRL. I would rather get rid of manifests after fully transitioning to RRDP than putting more responsibilities on manifests.

But this is of course me as a software developer speaking. The decision should be made by operators.

Oleg

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