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<title>Validation Settings</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="chrome://help/locale/helpFileLayout.css"
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type="text/css"/>
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<body>
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<h1 id="validation_settings">Validation Settings</h1>
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<p>This section describes how to set Validation preferences and how to control
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Certificate Revocation List (CRL) settings.</p>
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<p>For step-by-step descriptions of various tasks related to validation and
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CRLs, see <a href="using_certs_help.xhtml#controlling_validation">How
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Certificate Validation Works</a>.</p>
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<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#privacy_and_security_preferences_validation">Privacy &
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Security Preferences - Validation</a></li>
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<li><a href="#manage_crls">Manage CRLs</a></li>
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<li><a href="#crl_import_status">CRL Import Status</a></li>
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<li><a href="#automatic_crl_update_preferences">Automatic CRL Update
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Preferences</a></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<h2 id="privacy_and_security_preferences_validation">Privacy & Security
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Preferences - Validation</h2>
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<p>This section describes how to use the Validation Settings panel. If you are
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not already viewing the panel, follow these steps:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
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<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
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<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Validation. (If no
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subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
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the list.)</li>
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</ol>
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<p>For background information on certificate validation, see
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<a href="using_certs_help.xhtml#controlling_validation">How Certificate
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Validation Works</a>.</p>
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<h3 id="crl">CRL</h3>
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<p>A certificate revocation list (CRL) is a list of revoked certificates that
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is generated and signed by a
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<a href="glossary.xhtml#certificate_authority">certificate authority
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(CA)</a>. It's possible to download a CRL to your browser, which can
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check it to ensure that certificates are still valid before permitting their
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use for authentication.</p>
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<p>Click Manage CRLs to see a list of the CRLs available to Certificate
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Manager.</p>
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<p>For more information about managing CRLs, see
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<a href="using_certs_help.xhtml#managing_crls">Managing CRLs</a>.</p>
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<h3 id="ocsp">OCSP</h3>
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<p>The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) makes it possible for
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Certificate Manager to perform an online check of a certificate's
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validity each time the certificate is viewed or used. This process involves
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checking the certificate against a certificate revocation list (CRL)
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maintained at a specified website. Your computer must be online for OCSP to
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work.</p>
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<p>To specify how Certificate Manager uses OCSP, choose one of these settings
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in the OCSP section of Validation Settings:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Do not use OCSP for certificate verification</strong>: Select
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this setting if you don't want Certificate Manager to perform an
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online status check each time it verifies a certificate. Instead, whenever
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Certificate Manager performs
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<a href="glossary.xhtml#certificate_verification">certificate
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verification</a>, it only confirms the certificate's validity period
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and that it is correctly signed by a CA whose own CA certificate is both
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listed under the CA Certificates tab (in the main Certificate Manager
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window) and marked as trusted for issuing that kind of certificate.</li>
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<li><strong>Use OCSP to verify only certificates that specify an OCSP service
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URL</strong>: Select this setting if you want Certificate Manager perform
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an online status check each time it verifies a certificate that specifies a
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URL for the purpose of performing such a check. If a URL is specified by
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the certificate, Certificate Manager makes sure that the certificate is
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listed there as valid and checks the validity period and trust
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settings.</li>
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<li><strong>Use OCSP to verify all certificates, using the URL and signer
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specified here</strong>: Select this setting if you want Certificate
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Manager to perform an online status check each time it verifies any
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certificate. If you select this setting, you should also choose the
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certificate from the Response Signer pop-up menu that identifies the signer
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of the OCSP responses. With this setting, the only certificates Certificate
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Manager recognizes are those that can be verified by an OCSP response
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signed with the Response Signer certificate (or signed using a certificate
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that chains to it).
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<p>When you choose a Response Signer certificate from the pop-up menu,
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Certificate Manager fills in the Service URL (if available) for that
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signer automatically. If the Service URL is not filled in automatically,
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you must provide it yourself; ask your system administrator for
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details.</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="manage_crls">Manage CRLs</h2>
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<p>This section describes how to use the Manage CRLs dialog box. To view it,
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follow these steps:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
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<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
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<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Validation. (If no
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subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
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the list.)</li>
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<li>Click Manage CRLs.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>This dialog box displays a list of the
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<a href="glossary.xhtml#crl">CRLs</a> that you have
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downloaded for use by your browser. Typically, you download a CRL by
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clicking a URL. For information about how CRLs work, see
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<a href="using_certs_help.xhtml#managing_crls">Managing CRLs</a>.</p>
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<p>To select a CRL, click it. You can then perform any of these actions:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Delete</strong>: Deletes the CRL permanently from your hard disk.
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Don't do this unless you're sure you no longer need the CRL for
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validating certificates. If in doubt, consult your system
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administrator.</li>
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<li><strong>Settings</strong>: Opens the
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<a href="#automatic_crl_update_preferences">Automatic CRL Update
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Preferences</a> dialog box, which allows you to activate automatic CRL
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updates for the selected CRL and specify how frequently they should be
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performed.</li>
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<li><strong>Update</strong>: Immediately updates the selected CRL
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(if possible).</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The Manage CRLs dialog box provides the following information about each
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CRL:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Organization (O)</strong>: The name of the organization that
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issued the CRL.</li>
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<li><strong>Organizational Unit (OU)</strong>: The name of the organizational
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unit that issued the CRL (such as the root CA for a particular kind of
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certificate).</li>
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<li><strong>Last Update</strong>: The date on which the browser's copy
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of this CRL was last updated.</li>
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<li><strong>Next Update</strong>: The next date on which an updated version
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of this CRL will be published by the CRL issuer.</li>
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<li><strong>Auto Update</strong>: Indicates whether Auto Update has been
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enabled for this CRL. To view the settings that control auto updating,
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select the CRL and click Settings.</li>
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<li><strong>Auto Update Status</strong>:
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<ul>
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<li>If Auto Update has not been enabled, or if it has been enabled but
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the next scheduled update has not yet occurrred, this field will be
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blank.</li>
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<li>After at least one auto update has occurred, this field shows
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<q>failed</q> if the most recent auto update failed, or
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<q>OK</q> if the most recent auto update was successful.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="crl_import_status">CRL Import Status</h2>
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<p>This section describes how to use the CRL Import Status dialog box, which
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appears when you first attempt to import a CRL or when you successfully
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update it manually.</p>
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<p>This dialog box informs you</p>
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<ul>
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<li>whether your attempt to import or update the CRL was successful</li>
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<li>what organization issued the CRL</li>
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<li>when the next update of this CRL will be published</li>
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<li>whether Automatic Update is enabled for this CRL</li>
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</ul>
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<p>If Automatic Update is not enabled, you can turn it on from here:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Yes</strong>: Click Yes to enable automatic updating of this CRL.
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If you click this button, the Automatic CRL Update Preferences dialog box
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appears next. The next section describes how to set these preferences.</li>
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<li><strong>No</strong>: Click No if you wish to leave Automatic Update
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disabled.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="automatic_crl_update_preferences">Automatic CRL Update Preferences</h2>
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<p>This section describes how to use the Automatic CRL Update Preferences
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dialog box. If you are not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
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<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
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<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Validation. (If no
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subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
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the list.)</li>
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<li>Click Manage CRLs, then select the CRL whose auto update preferences you
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want to view or change.</li>
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<li>Click Settings.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>This dialog box displays the following options and information:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Enable Automatic Update for this CRL</strong>: Select this option
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if you want the CRL you selected to be updated automatically according to
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the schedule you set here. (Note that you can't select this option if
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the CRL doesn't specify a Next Update date.)
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<p>If you enable Automatic Update, you must select one of these radio
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buttons:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Update X days before Next Update date</strong>: Select this
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option if you want to base the update frequency on the frequency with
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which the CRL publisher publishes a new version of the CRL.</li>
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<li><strong>Update every X days</strong>: Select this option if you
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want to specify an update interval unrelated to the CRL's Next
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Update date.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><strong>CRL would be imported from</strong>: Indicates the URL from which
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the browser originally imported the CRL. This setting cannot be changed. To
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specify a different location, delete the CRL and re-import it from the new
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location.</li>
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<li><strong>Previous Consecutive Update Failures</strong>: Indicates how
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many times update attempts for this CRL have failed consecutively,
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including the most recent failure:
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<ul>
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<li>If the most recent attempt was successful, this reads
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<q>None</q> even if there were previous unsuccessful
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attempts.</li>
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<li>If the most recent attempt failed, this indicates the number of
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consecutive failures and the error message for the most recent
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failure.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Click OK to confirm your choices.</p>
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<p>Copyright © 2003-2010 The Mozilla Foundation.</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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