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Certificate Revocation

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Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security

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Certificate; Certification Authority; Public Key Cryptography; Security Standards Activities

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Certificate revocation is the process of attempting to ensure that a certificate that should no longer be considered valid is not used by relying parties. Many techniques have been proposed for achieving this in different environments including simply publishing this information on a publicly accessible list and hoping that a relying party will consult this list before using the certificate.

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A certificate (Certificate and Certification Authority) is a binding between a name of an entity and that entity’s public key pair (Public Key Cryptography). Normally, this binding is valid for the full lifetime of the issued certificate. However, circumstances may arise in which an issued certificate should no longer be considered valid, even though the certificate has not yet expired. In such cases, the certificate may need to be revoked (a process known as certific...

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  1. School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Avenue, P.O. Box 450, Station A, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Carlisle Adams (Prof.)

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Henk C. A. van Tilborg

  2. Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4422, USA

    Sushil Jajodia

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Adams, C. (2011). Certificate Revocation. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_71

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