Mads Rasmussen wrote:
[...]
> My doubt is that the OPTIONAL extensions (crlEntry and crlExtensions)
> doen't seem to be used. I have tested CRLs from VeriSign, GlobalSign and
> Thawte but none uses the OPTIONAL fields just.
> 
> I know that the version number for the CRL changes from 1 to 2 when
> these fields are present but I cannot find one CRL as an example
> 
> Could someone please help me with this? I am developing a PKI tool and
> would like to be able to treat these extensions.

Hi,

the extensions within the CRLs are, as a matter of fact, not used right
now because of clients incompatibility with them, i.e. Netscape (at least
V4.xx as far as I know) seems to have problems handling V2 CRLs.

OpenSSL, and thus OpenCA, is capable of generating CRLs with extensions,
anyway.

-- 

C'you,

        Massimiliano Pala

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