When installing a new certificate authority certificate, you get the error message "The revocation function was unable to check revocation for the certificate. 0x80092012 (-2146885614 CRYPT_E_NO_REVOCATION_CHECK)".

Assume the following scenario:

  • One installs a new certification authority certificate on the certification authority, either because the certification authority was newly installed, or because the certification authority certificate was renewed.
  • During the installation you get the following error message:
Cannot verify certificate chain. Do you wish to ignore the error and continue? The revocation function was unable to check revocation for the certificate. 0x80092012 (-2146885614 CRYPT_E_NO_REVOCATION_CHECK)

Cause

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This warning is generated if the new certification authority certificate does not contain any certificate revocation list distribution points (CDP). These should be entered in the certificate by the higher-level certification authority when signing the certification authority certificate.

If possible, you should therefore cancel and ask the higher-level certification authority to enter the CDP-PFade. If this is not possible, you can still install the CA certificate - but it cannot then be checked for revocation.

You can also suppress the message altogether by running the following command line command on the certificate authority:

certutil -setreg CA\CRLFlags +CRLF_REVCHECK_IGNORE_NOREVCHECK

However, this is not mandatory, as a warning is only generated once during the installation of the certification authority certificate.

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