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Revoke the intermediate CA certificate

Richard Crowley edited this page Apr 13, 2014 · 8 revisions

If your root CA's private key leaks you're out of luck and have to burn the whole PKI to the ground. If you have bad, but slightly less bad, luck and only your intermediate CA's private key leak you can recover.

First, revoke every certificate issued by the compromised intermediate CA:

TODO

Next, revoke the intermediate CA certificate:

certified-ca --revoke

Finally, regenerate all the certificates previously signed by the intermediate CA:

TODO

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