Partitioned CRLs

2008-10-21 Thread Nuno Ponte
Hi, We are running a CA that has thousands of revoked certificates, which leads to CRLs of several MBytes. On the next nenewal of the CA, we are thinking of partitioning the CRLs at each X number of issued certificates. The issued certificates will have different CRL Distribution

Re: Partitioned CRLs

2008-10-21 Thread Cuesta Gilles
Nuno Ponte a écrit : Hi, We are running a CA that has thousands of revoked certificates, which leads to CRLs of several MBytes. On the next nenewal of the CA, we are thinking of partitioning the CRLs at each X number of issued certificates. The issued certificates will have

Re: Partitioned CRLs

2008-10-21 Thread Nuno Ponte
Hi Gilles, Thanks for your reply! :-) The CA also offers OCSP, which is obviously the preferred way to validate certificate status. I am just trying to make sure that there is support from the applications world to such a CRL partitioning scheme. Wide interoperability is a key goal.