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Re: [IETF-PKIX] OCSP Status Information on a Certificate



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Michael Myers <mmyers@VERISIGN.COM> scrawled:
>
> And in the event a client receives {is revoked, not issued}, which

I think you mean {is revoked, issued} here...

> dominates?  Similarly, {not revoked, not issued}.  I remain unconvinced this
> is no problem.  As soon as OCSP clients are out there in any volume, there
> are those who will seek to determine the client's behavior in fringe cases.
>

I agree that the implications are not trivial.  For one thing, as I've said,
a responder working solely with CRL information can not determine a
certificate's existance if the cert has not been revoked.  One bit is not
enough to capture the semantics.

                Marc

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