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Creating Your Own Certificate Revocation List

You can easily build and manage certificate revocation lists for client certificates issued within your own organization. The CRL can then be added by using TFTP/FTP/SCP/SFTP. For more information about how to accomplish this, see “Revoking Client Certificates Issued within your Own Organization” (page 117).

Step Action

1Open a text editor and create a new file.

2Decide if you want to add serial numbers in decimal form, or in hexadecimal form.

If you choose to add serial numbers for client certificates to revoke in decimal form, add a paragraph in the text document that reads:

ASCII revocation

Or, if you choose to add serial numbers in hexadecimal form, add a paragraph in the text document that reads:

HEX ASCII revocation

Note: You can add comments to a CRL ASCII file by preceding your comments with the # character. Each new line of comments must begin with the # character. Comments can be used for providing information about the date of issue or last update, for example. You can cancel the revocation of a client certificate by inserting the # character at the beginning of the line containing the desired serial number.

3Add the serial numbers of the client certificates you want to revoke.

For a CRL in decimal format, simply list the serial numbers the ASCII revocation paragraph. For example:

#CRL for CA certificate 1

#Issued first: 2005-01-01

#Last update: 2005-02-01

ASCII revocation

500

501

590

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