SCVP

The Server-based Certificate Validation Protocol ( SCVP ) is an Internet protocol that allows clients to outsource the construction of an X.509 certificate chain and their validation. This is especially of clients that are overloaded with the chain structure and of the validation due to lack of resources, or protocols, are needed. SCVP may decrease the client all tasks ( structure of the chain, checking for revocation, validation) of a full certification exam.

Unlike OCSP SCVP consists of two messages:

  • First, the client queries the server support after validation policies that determine the applications for which the server is configured.
  • Then the client sends the server certificate IDs and specifies what actions to take, the answers signed by the server.

So far SCVP is hardly used and supported by few applications.

Client (computing)
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