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The @emph{Certificate Revocation List} is a list containing
certificates revoked by the issuer.
+@item CSR
+ The @emph{Certificate Signing Request} is a message send to a CA to
+ask them to issue a new certificate. The data format of such a signing
+request is called PCKS#10.
+
@item Keygrip
This term is used by GnuPG to describe a 20 byte hash value used
to identify a certain key without referencing to a concrete protocol.