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by scrollaway 4452 days ago
Unlikely to be that high. The 0.1% that may dig in those advanced settings is likely the same 0.1% that disabled the thing back when it was enabled by default. CRLs are worthless.
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Worthless except when your cert key is stolen and you want to revoke the old one?
What good is it to revoke one, if it still works because no one checked the revocation list?
That's the whole point of me posting this...
How are they worthless?
They're worthless because clearly no one is using them. They may theoretically be useful, but it doesn't matter if they're never put into practice.
Do you mean nobody on the CA side or the end user side? CA's suspend certificates all the time - instant e the scam site had theirs pulled a few weeks ago...
Beyond being seldom used, they also leak usage information.
If you are leaking usage information with ocsp/crl checks you are also spewing out information via DNS requests.