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Status Future consideration
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 31, 2022

SSL Daemon - Dynamically refresh CRL/Certs when they are changed

We have a security requirement to update the CRL daily. We have a process that recycles all of the INETD services in order to bring in the latest CRL for all new connections. We have recently ran into heap issues on the SSL Daemons that forced us to take an outage because of all the old CTX tables still needed to support long-running sockets.


We would like to see a mechanism that would bring in the new CRL and to clear out the cached CRL / Certificate verify information in the CTX so that the INETD refresh would no longer be required. This would also allow us to provide the same functionality for connections that do not use INETD (HSC, MQ).

Idea priority Medium