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Certificate Revocation is a process for reporting that a certificate should no longer be trusted to the cert's issuing CA. The CA then places the cert on its CRL, and responds "REVOKED" to any OCSP requests for that cert. Normally only the owner of the cert (holder of the private key) can revoke a cert, though in special circumstances a CA can revoke a cert directly.

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Can a revoked certificate be re-instated?

Revoking a certificate only affects metadata about that certificate, but doesn't change anything about the certificate at all. If a client doesn't perform revocation checks (such as using a CRL or OCS …
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