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Ian's Blog · May 9, 2019

What the heck is OCSP?

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The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web browser) to check if a certificate has been revoked or not. Certificate Revocation? With asymmetrical encryption, your encryption is only as good as long as your private key remains private. This is often not the case and private keys end up exposed. This is just one of the many possible reasons why…

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