Glossary - Using the GNU Privacy Guard
Description: Using the GNU Privacy Guard

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## Glossary

``ARL`'
  The Authority Revocation List is technical identical to a CRL but used for CAs and not for end user certificates.
``CRL`'
  The Certificate Revocation List is a list containing certificates revoked by the issuer.
``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. It is used internally to access a private key. Usually it is shown and entered as a 40 character hexadecimal formatted string.
``OCSP`'
  The Online Certificate Status Protocol is used as an alternative to a CRL. It is described in `RFC 2560`.