Certificate Revocation List (CRL)
A Certificate Revocation List is a signed list published by a Certificate Authority (CA). It contains serial numbers of certificates that were revoked before their normal expiry date. Clients and checkers download the CRL from the certificate’s CRL Distribution Points and look up the serial number. If the serial appears on the list, the certificate must not be trusted—even if the dates still look valid. CRLs are updated periodically; OCSP is a live query alternative, and this tool checks both when available.