Certificate Revocation List
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A Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is a cryptographically-signed list of certificates that a certificate authority has declared to be revoked.
A CRL file may be encoded in PEM format, DER format, or possibly some other format.
CRL files are becoming less widely-used, in favor of the OCSP protocol.
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[edit] Identification
A PEM-encoded CRL file is plain text, with base64-encoded payload data. It contains a line that reads "-----BEGIN X509 CRL-----".
[edit] Examples
To view the contents of a PEM-encoded CRL file, using OpenSSL:
openssl crl -noout -text -in example.crl
To view the contents of a DER-encoded CRL file:
openssl crl -inform DER -noout -text -in example.crl
[edit] Software
[edit] Sample files
Most SSL certificates contain a link to a CRL file (in the "CRL Distribution Points" extension), so live CRL files are easy to find.
