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certificate revocation list (CRL)
(I) A data structure that enumerates digital certificates that
have been invalidated by their issuer prior to when they were
scheduled to expire. (See: certificate expiration, X.509
certificate revocation list.)
(O) "A signed list indicating a set of certificates that are no
longer considered valid by the certificate issuer. After a
certificate appears on a CRL, it is deleted from a subsequent CRL
after the certificate's expiry. CRLs may be used to identify
revoked public-key certificates or attribute certificates and may
represent revocation of certificates issued to authorities or to
users. The term CRL is also commonly used as a generic term
applying to all the different types of revocation lists, including
CRLs, ARLs, ACRLs, etc." [FPDAM]
