April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
THE OCSP stapling process involves several components and validity checks. The following graphic illustrates the OCSP stapling process:

As you can see, the process starts when the user attempts to open an SSL-encrypted website via their browser. The browser queries the web server to ensure the SSL-encrypted website has a valid certificate. The web server queries the certificate's vendor and is provided with both the certificate status and the digital signed time-stamp. The web server takes those two components (certificate status and digital signed time-stamp), staples them together, and returns the stapled set to the ...