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by nickf 702 days ago
What non-HTTP services need publicly-trusted certificates and care about revocation?
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mail
Like SMTP/IMAP etc? That would make sense, though I'm not sure how much revocation checking even happens there.
OCSP stapling: free feature of TLS library, works

OCSP must-staple: free feature of TLS library, works

plain OCSP: hit & miss, depends on the client software using the TLS library correctly

CRL: no.

… that's the crux of this entire thread.