Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is essential for securing and establishing trust in digital communications. As you scale your digital operations, you’ll issue and revoke certificates. Revoking certificates is useful especially when employees leave, migrate to a new certificate authority hierarchy, meet compliance, and respond to security incidents. Use the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) or Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) method to track revoked certificates. You can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) to create a certificate authority (CA), which publishes revocation information through these methods so that systems can verify certificate validity.
As enterprises continue to scale their operations, they face limitations when using complete CRLs to issue and revoke more than 1 million certificates. The workaround of increasing CRL file sizes isn’t viable, because many applications can’t process large CRL…
