Certificate revocation lists (CRL)
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Base or delta.
Complete / differences.
Signed list of identifiers of prematurely invalidated certificates.
Can tell the revocation reason.
Must be regularly fetched by verifiers.
e.g. once a day.
Single certificate validations.
OCSP (RFC 6960) query/response.
OCSP stapling (RFCs 6066, 6961, 8446).
Publication and distribution of CRLs.
Each CA keeps its CRL and allows public access to it.
CAs exchange CRLs to facilitate their widespread.