
Certificates gone bad | The Backend Engineering Show
About this episode
Certificates contain useful metadata including the public key, domain name, signature, etc. However, the private key can be leaked which causes the certificate to be invalid/dangerous to keep around. In that particular situation, we need a mechanism to revoke certificates and that is what I’m going to discuss in this show.
0:00 Intro
0:30 Why Certificates
12:00 Certificates can go bad
14:50 Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs)
18:30 OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol)
20:40 OCSP Stapling
24:30 Best certificates are short
26:30 Summary
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