Re: Digital Certification Revocation

["M.D.Mufambisi" <mufambisi () gmail com>]

Thanks tracy. In the event that i die, what stops someone with access
to my digital certification pose as me? Does someone have to revoke MY
certificate in the even of my death?

Regards

Munya

On 9/17/09, Tracy Reed <treed () ultraviolet org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:53:26PM +0200, M.D.Mufambisi spake thusly:
> > Another question from yours truly. When someone has a digital
> > certificate, and then passes away (dies) how does the Revocation
> > authority get to know about this so as to disallow further use of that
> > persons digital cert?
>
> The authority needs to be sent a revocation request signed by the
> certificate being revoked. It is good practice to generate this
> revocation request at key generation time and keep it in a safe
> place. This is because if the signing key is lost such that no signed
> revocation certificate can be generated it becomes impossible to
> revoke.
>
> Similarly, if the private signing key is encrypted and the owner of
> the key takes the password to their grave it is impossible to generate
> a revocation certificate.
>
> --
> Tracy Reed
> http://tracyreed.org

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