Revoke/Suspend

Revoking certificates means blacklisting certificates permanently. Revoking a certificate invalidates it as a trusted security credential before its original validity period expires. There are several reasons why a certificate can become untrustworthy as a security credential before its scheduled expiration. Only an officer has the right to revoke a certificate.

Click on Manage user Certificate ->Revoke/Suspend from the sub-menu as shown in the below figure.

By default “ Select ” is selected. Officers can search for the certificate to be revoked by selecting “Serial Number”, “Common name” “Issuer Name” or ”Subscriber Id”.

Enter the search for a term as per the Search By selection. Say for example if Search by is selected as Serial Number, enter the Serial Number of the user certificate.

Click on “Search” to search the user certificate.

Click on “Reset” to reset the content entered in the search box

Select the Revoke icon from action to select the certificate you want to revoke or view. Clicking on the view icon will display the selected certificate detail in the pop-up.

Choose the reason from the Reason for Revocation dropdown as shown in the below figure.

Clicking on the view icon will display the selected certificate detail in the pop-up.

Enter the reason in the text box provided.

Click on the Confirm button

The below page as shown in the below figure will display the details entered by “Officer”

Authenticate with the Officer’s valid email ID and token PIN [The no. of officers required to authenticate and sign the request will be defined in the M of N defined during initial CA Setup] and then click on the Revoke button.

Click on “Revoke” to successfully revoke the certificate as shown below.