RE: Purpose of CRL

Hi Gregor,

>> What do _your_ applications do with X509 CRLs? Do you collect all
>> CRLs into
>> a file and check new chertificates against the sum of all CRLs ?

> IXSIL has an interface to a "trust management system". If IXSIL
> detects CRLs, they are provided to the TMS over this interface.
> Later in the process IXSIL requests a decision wheter a certain
> certificate is trusted by the TMS. What the TMS does with the
> provided CRLs, is in its own responsability.

OK, that's what I thought, too. Do there already exist standards to 
interfaces to TMS like XKMS or do you leave this to your app (simply a 
addCRL(CRL) and checkAgainstTMS(X509Certificate) interface) ?

Regards,
Christian

Received on Friday, 21 September 2001 05:28:59 UTC