A Study on CRL Issue by P2P Network

The core issue of deploying PKI always focuses on how to increase the issue efficiency of CRL (Certificate Revocation List) and decrease the deployment cost. Starting with the discussion on change of network structure for the traditional CRL issue mechanism, this paper adopted the dispersed P2P instead of the centralized Client/Server network structure and analyzed its issue efficiency. Finally we can get the Conclusion that the simple application of P2P network in the periodic CRL issue can not decrease the peak access rate of CRL storage library, but can accelerate the convergence of request rate for CRL.