November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
8h 46m
English
The purpose of this section is to describe the various periodic publication mechanisms available. The periodic publication mechanisms discussed within this section are
Complete Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs)
Authority Revocation Lists (ARLs)
CRL Distribution Points (also known as Partitioned CRLs)
Delta CRLs
Indirect CRLs
Enhanced CRL Distribution Points and Redirect CRLs
Certificate Revocation Trees (CRTs)
Generally, these periodic publication mechanisms can be considered "pre-publication" techniques characterized by issuing the revocation information on a periodic basis in the form of a signed data structure. All but one of these techniques (CRTs are the exception) are based on the same basic data structure ...