Next: , Previous: Contributors, Up: Top


Glossary

`ARL'
The Authority Revocation List is technical identical to a CRL but used for CAs and not for end user certificates.
`CRL'
The Certificate Revocation List is a list containing certificates revoked by the issuer.
`Keygrip'
This term is used by GnuPG to describe a 20 byte hash value used to identify a certain key without referencing to a concrete protocol. It is used internally to access a private key. Usually it is shown and entered as a 40 character hexadecimal formatted string.
`OCSP'
The Online Certificate Status Protocol is used as an alternative to a CRL. It is described in RFC 2560.