JEP 124: Enhance the Certificate Revocation-Checking API
- by smullan
Revocation checking is the mechanism to determine the revocation status of a certificate. If it is revoked, it is considered invalid and should not be used. Currently as of JDK 7, the PKIX implementation of java.security.cert.CertPathValidator includes a revocation checking implementation that supports both OCSP and CRLs, the two main methods…