Lecture
Certificate Revocation: What Is It And What Should It Be — IPICS 2002
Lecture slides from the Fifth European Intensive Programme on Information and Communication Technologies Security (July 2002, Samos) on certificate revocation mechanisms.
July 2002 · Fifth IPICS, University of the Aegean and IFIP, Samos
Topics covered
- Certificate revocation: definition, purpose and importance
- CRL, delta-CRL, OCSP and other revocation mechanisms compared
- Timeliness and freshness requirements for revocation information
- Revocation in practice: performance, scalability and reliability
- Recommended improvements to certificate revocation infrastructure