• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.15-27
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• 2002

The purpose of this paper is to present both the specification of delta-CRL and the polices for delta CRL in order to solve the problem involved in issuing and maintaining the certificate revocation lists for the mobile communication network. If the user request to revoke the certificate issued by certification authority, the certification should be revoked and listed up in the certificate revocation list. In general, the certificate revocation list is issued regularly. Therefore PKI application should download the CRL and prove the validity of CRL. The traffic size of the exchanged traffic should be reduced for the mobile communication environment. The result if this paper can be used for the mobile communication various environments to reduce the size of CRL.