This is still a problem in 7.7.2, so more than three years and as far as I know in all versions of XR that have "smart" licensing. I don't understand how a security relevant bug like this is simply ignored for years and years, across all versions and...

Thanks for posting this. We've hit the same bug. How is smart-licensing made mandatory in this version and it's not even able to connect to the server? Anyway, one workaround is to disable CRL checking (which I do not recommend!) by configuring crypt...