What Are the Differences Between Revoking a Certificate and Deleting a Certificate?

You can revoke or delete certificates in HUAWEI CLOUD SCM.

The revocation or deletion of a certificate has no impact on repurchase of the certificate.

The differences are as follows:

• Description
  • Revoking a certificate: indicates invalidating an issued certificate at the CA. A revoked certificate is no longer trusted and can no longer be used for certificate-based encryption.
  • Deleting a certificate: indicates deleting a certificate from Huawei Cloud. The certificate will still be valid and trusted by web browsers.
• Constraints
  • Revoking a certificate:

    If you no longer need a certificate, the private key of the certificate is lost, or you have certain security concerns, you can revoke an issued certificate on the SCM console.

    

    A certificate in the renewal period cannot be revoked. So, a certificate cannot be revoked within one month before it expires.

  • Deleting a certificate:

    If your certificate is in the Expired, Hosted, or Issued state, you can delete it on the SCM console.