* Allow generation of up-to-date delta CRLs
While switching to periodic rebuilds of CRLs alleviates the constant
rebuild pressure on Vault during times of high revocation, the CRL
proper becomes stale. One response to this is to switch to OCSP, but not
every system has support for this. Additionally, OCSP usually requires
connectivity and isn't used to augment a pre-distributed CRL (and is
instead used independently).
By generating delta CRLs containing only new revocations, an existing
CRL can be supplemented with newer revocations without requiring Vault
to rebuild all complete CRLs. Admins can periodically fetch the delta
CRL and add it to the existing CRL and applications should be able to
support using serials from both.
Because delta CRLs are emptied when the next complete CRL is rebuilt, it
is important that applications fetch the delta CRL and correlate it to
their complete CRL; if their complete CRL is older than the delta CRL's
extension number, applications MUST fetch the newer complete CRL to
ensure they have a correct combination.
This modifies the revocation process and adds several new configuration
options, controlling whether Delta CRLs are enabled and when we'll
rebuild it.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>
* Add tests for delta CRLs
Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>
* Add changelog entry
Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>
* Add documentation on delta CRLs
Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>
* Address review feedback: fix several bugs
Thanks Steve!
Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>
* Correctly invoke periodic func on active nodes
We need to ensure we read the updated config (in case of OCSP request
handling on standby nodes), but otherwise want to avoid CRL/DeltaCRL
re-building.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>
Alexander Scheel