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The traditional X.509 CRL and OCSP mechanisms treat all possible reasons for revocation uniformly for all websites. This uniformity leads directly to the scalability problem of revocation checking: relatively unimportant revocations overwhelm the system and completely drown out obviously critical revocations. The key to efficient, scalable processing of revocations in the short term is to realize that there are multiple possible ways for revocation information to be retrieved and that the choice of retrieval method can be made on the basis of the reason for revocation. | The traditional X.509 CRL and OCSP mechanisms treat all possible reasons for revocation uniformly for all websites. This uniformity leads directly to the scalability problem of revocation checking: relatively unimportant revocations overwhelm the system and completely drown out obviously critical revocations. The key to efficient, scalable processing of revocations in the short term is to realize that there are multiple possible ways for revocation information to be retrieved and that the choice of retrieval method can be made on the basis of the reason for revocation. | ||
== Problems to Solve == | == Problems to Solve == | ||