On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 10:30:58PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2025-09-06 20:07:47 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > A tool like wget is not in the position to fetch CRLs from all 
> > possibly involved CAs for each request it makes. These CRLs are 
> > unweildly in size, making this completely impractical.
> 
> This is not correct. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/crlite/
> claims: "CRLite is efficient enough to store *all* certificate
> revocations locally, requiring only 300KB per day of continuous
> updates to stay current."
> 
> 300KB per day is very little for the security gain.

CRLite is not the CA-provided CRL, but a Mozilla operated thing.

Somebody would have to drive an ecosystem-wide adoption. But from a 
bit of searching I couldn't find client libraries, or any info on 
how non-Mozilla stuff could use it.

Chris

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