Dear CAs, Relying Parties, Users, and all others interested,

In this announcement:

1. Updated fetch-crl3 (3.0.16) with improved cache expiry control mitigating issues with too-long cache control expirations sent by certain content delivery networks when serving CRLs

========================================================================= 1. Updated fetch-crl3 (3.0.16) with improved cache expiry control =========================================================================

Some content delivery networks (CDNs), including EdgeCast, may send HTTP cache control headers that cause fetch-crl to retain an copy of a certificate revocation list (CRL) beyond its nextUpdate time. If that happens, this CRL will be considered 'expired' and it will disable the affected CA. However, since the HTTP cache headers had previously indicated that the CRL content was still 'current' as retrieved from the CDN, fetch-crl will NOT update it. Thus, the affected CA or CAs will be 'disabled' for the period between nextUpdate and cache expiry.

This currently affects the TERENA "3rd Generation" Trusted Certificate Service, which is served by DigiCert using the EdgeCast CDN. Only the EdgeCast CDN (crl3.digicert.com) is affected; the CacheFly CDN (crl4.digicert.com) does not suffer from this issue.

Fetch-crl 3.0.16 implements additional checks that will force cache expiration to happen before nextUpdate (by default, nextUpdate must be at least 7 hours past the cache expiration). It will also limit the maximum time that fetch-crl will consider a CRL 'current' (by default maximum 96 hrs), regardless of cache-control headers.

For documentation see http://www.nikhef.nl/grid/fetchcrl3/, and you can download the new version in RRM and source form at

https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/util/fetch-crl/

This new version will also be available through Fedora EPEL and Debian is due time.

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