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Two PKI improvements: #5134

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  • Disallow adding CA's serial to revocation list
  • Allow disabling revocation list generation. This returns an empty (but
    signed) list, but does not affect tracking of revocations so turning it
    back on will populate the list properly.

* Disallow adding CA's serial to revocation list
* Allow disabling revocation list generation. This returns an empty (but
signed) list, but does not affect tracking of revocations so turning it
back on will populate the list properly.

~> Note: Disabling the CRL does not affect whether revoked certificates are
stored internally. Certificates that have been revoked when a role's
certificate storage is enabled will continue to be marked and stored as

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The certificate store shouldn't be a bottleneck because each cert is stored in a different k/v pair in the Consul storage backend - whereas the CRL is stored in a single k/v pair? Is that right @jefferai ?

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Right.

@jefferai jefferai merged commit b54b264 into master Aug 21, 2018
@jefferai jefferai deleted the crl-disabling branch August 21, 2018 15:21
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