{"id":3053,"date":"2012-02-17T16:45:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2012-02-17T16:45:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:45:58","slug":"online-certificate-status-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"Online Certificate Status Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Online_Certificate_Status_Protocol\">Online Certificate Status Protocol &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <strong>Online Certificate Status Protocol<\/strong> (<strong>OCSP<\/strong>) is an <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Internet protocol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_protocol\">Internet protocol<\/a> used for obtaining the revocation status of an <a title=\"X.509\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X.509\">X.509<\/a> <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Digital certificate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_certificate\">digital certificate<\/a>. It is described in <a class=\"external mw-magiclink-rfc\" href=\"http:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc2560\">RFC 2560<\/a> and is on the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Internet standard\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_standard\">Internet standards<\/a> track. It was created as an alternative to <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Certificate revocation list\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Certificate_revocation_list\">certificate revocation lists<\/a> (CRL), specifically addressing certain problems associated with using CRLs in a <a title=\"Public key infrastructure\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_key_infrastructure\">public key infrastructure<\/a> (PKI). Messages communicated via OCSP are encoded in <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"ASN.1\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ASN.1\">ASN.1<\/a> and are usually communicated over <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"HTTP\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTTP\">HTTP<\/a>. The &#8220;request\/response&#8221; nature of these messages leads to OCSP <a title=\"Server (computing)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Server_%28computing%29\">servers<\/a> being termed <em>OCSP responders<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Certificate Status Protocol &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is an Internet protocol used for obtaining the revocation status of an X.509 digital certificate. It is described in RFC 2560 and is on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3053\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[502,323],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-ocsp","tag-protocols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8925,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions\/8925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}