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Re: CRLs (was Re: Verisign certificates problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Patterson)
Mon Mar 26 13:13:55 2001

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Date:         Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:56:36 -0500
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From: Patrick Patterson <ppatterson@carillonis.com>
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That I know of, Entrust.net, SITA, and EQUANT all have functioning CRLs (They
use CDP's for slightly more efficient handling of large CRLs)


On Friday 23 March 2001 16:52, j eric townsend wrote:
> someone wrote:
> >The first question I have after seeing that is how many of the rest of the
> >500,000 certificates that Verisign says they have issued also do not have
> >this CRL Distribution Point field properly filled in.
>
> For that matter, how many certificates out there are attached to any
> sort of CRL mechanism in the first place?  Is there any signing
> authority with a functioning CRL service up and running right now?
>
> --
> jet@tivo.com
> The little voices in my head tell me it would be a bad idea to speak for
> TiVo.

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