+2004-01-02 Arne J\e,Ax\e(Brgensen <arne@arnested.dk>
+
+ * smime.el (smime-crl-check): Doc fix.
+
2004-01-02 Edwin Steiner <edwin.steiner@gmx.net>
* gnus-nocem.el (gnus-nocem-enter-article): Use the real group
:group 'smime)
(defcustom smime-crl-check nil
- "*Check revocation status of signers certificate using CRLs."
+ "*Check revocation status of signers certificate using CRLs.
+Enabling this will have OpenSSL check the signers certificate
+against a certificate revocation list (CRL).
+
+For this to work the CRL must be up-to-date and since they are
+normally updated quite often (ie. several times a day) you
+probably need some tool to keep them up-to-date. Unfortunately
+Gnus cannot do this for you.
+
+The CRL should either be appended (in PEM format) to your
+`smime-CA-file' or be located in a file (also in PEM format) in
+your `smime-certificate-directory' named to the X.509 hash of the
+certificate with .r0 as file name extension.
+
+At least OpenSSL version 0.9.7 is required for this to work."
:type '(choice (const :tag "No check" nil)
(const :tag "Check certificate" "-crl_check")
(const :tag "Check certificate chain" "-crl_check_all"))