On Tue, Jan 20, 2004, Michael Helm wrote:

> Joseph Bruni writes:
> > -- call "curl" or "wget" to retrieve the CRL
> > -- use "openssl crl -nextupdate ..." to extract the update time
> > -- call "at" to schedule itself to run again in the future.
> 
> Here are some other things that would be worth taking into consideration.
> 
> In downloaded crl's:
> Look for CRLv2 sequence numbers -- don't go backwards
>    [See RFC 3280 5.2.3 CRL Number -- does openssl understand this? 
>     probably not]

It can decode and display CRL Number and the data is accessible
programmatically. OpenSSL 0.9.8 can also issue CRLs using CRL Number.

Steve.
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