Details of the event with ID 84 of the source Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthority

Author Uwe GradeneggerPosted on Categories Events, Certification AuthorityTags
Event Source:Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthority
Event ID:84 (0x54)
Event log:Application
Event type:Error
Symbolic Name:MSG_E_INVALID_KRA_CERT
Event text (English):Active Directory Certificate Services will not use key recovery certificate %1 because it could not be verified for use as a Key Recovery Agent. %2 %3
Event text (German):Key Recovery Certificate %1 is not used by Active Directory Certificate Services because it could not be verified for use as a Key Recovery Agent. %2 %3

Parameter

The parameters contained in the event text are filled with the following fields:

  • %1: KRACertIndex (win:UnicodeString)
  • %2: KRACertSubjectName (win:UnicodeString)
  • %3: ErrorCode (win:UnicodeString)

Example events

Active Directory Certificate Services will not use key recovery certificate 0 because it could not be verified for use as a Key Recovery Agent. CN=Administrator, CN=Users, DC=intra, DC=adcslabor, DC=en The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline. 0x80092013 (-2146885613 CRYPT_E_REVOCATION_OFFLINE)

Description

See article "Certificate request fails with error message "Cannot archive private key. The certification authority could not verify one or more key recovery certificates. 0x8009400b (-2146877429 CERTSRV_E_NO_VALID_KRA)".„.

Safety assessment

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

Since the certification authority does not accept certificate requests for which private key archiving is configured, and such certificate ccta thus cannot be requested, availability is affected.

Microsoft rating

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

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