{"id":1715,"date":"2011-03-28T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T11:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2011-04-06T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:02:53","slug":"tech-terminology-demystified-ocsp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/tech-terminology-demystified-ocsp\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Terminology Demystified &#8211; OCSP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is an Internet protocol used for obtaining the revocation status of an X.509 digital certificate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt was created as an alternative to certificate revocation lists (CRL).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\n Messages communicated via OCSP are encoded in ASN.1 and are usually communicated over HTTP. The &#8220;request\/response&#8221; nature of these messages leads to OCSP servers being termed OCSP responders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\nUsing OCSP, a client can obtain revocation information regarding a certificate. OCSP responders accept requests that contain a serial and reply with a signed statement about that single certificate. This avoids the potentially large overhead of downloading a CRL and ostensibly means you can get &#8220;fresher&#8221; revocation information about a certificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is an Internet protocol used for obtaining the revocation status of an X.509 digital certificate. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itsec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-rF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}