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Cybersecurity 2026-11-11 · 1 h ago Source: Help Net Security

Ubuntu certificate revocation checks arrive in curl, OpenSSL is next

Ubuntu certificate revocation checks arrive in curl, OpenSSL is next

Summary

Ubuntu 26.10 ships curl with certificate revocation checking built in. The check comes from upki, a project from the rustls developers. Ubuntu’s developers ran the same curl command on both releases: Ubuntu 26.04 accepted a revoked certificate and connected, while 26.10 refused it. A certificate authority revokes a certificate when it should stop being trusted before it expires. OpenSSL checks a…

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