Re: [lamps] The Status of OCSP and its future

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 24 October 2019 19:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lamps] The Status of OCSP and its future
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Dr. Pala <madwolf@openca.org> wrote:
    > Specifically, for very large PKIs (i.e., few hundreds million
    > certificates valid at any given time), the OCSP protocol does not
    > scale well. In fact, taking into consideration how we operate OCSP
    > responders today, the larger the PKI is, the higher the costs of
    > providing a good revocation infrastructure is.

Why not just spread your load across multiple OCSP endpoints by putting
different AuthorityInfoAccess values in?

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