Details of the event with ID 68 of the source Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthority

Event Source:	Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthority
Event ID:	68 (0x44)
Event log:	Application
Event type:	Information
Event text (English):	Active Directory Certificate Services successfully published Base CRL(s).
Event text (German):	The basic certificate revocation lists have been published.

Example events

Active Directory Certificate Services successfully published Base CRL(s).

Description

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Occurs when a blacklist is published,

• if on the Certification Authority none LDAP revocation list distribution points are configured to publish the blacklist.
• if no delta revocation lists are configured, or
• when a publication of a basic blacklist is made.

See also the events with IDs 69, 70, 71, 72, 73.

The event occurs only when the Logging level has been set to 4 (CERTLOG_VERBOSE) or higher for the event log of the relevant certification authority.

Safety assessment

The security assessment is based on the three dimensions of confidentiality, integrity and availability.

No description has been written for this yet.

Microsoft rating

Microsoft evaluates this event in the Securing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Whitepaper with a severity score of "Low".

Related links:

• Overview of Windows events generated by the certification authority
• Overview of audit events generated by the Certification Authority

External sources

• Securing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) (Microsoft)