Methods for establishing a connection to a server with a cached certificate and devices thereof

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for establishing a connection to a server with a certificate comprising executable code which when executed by one or more processors, causes the processors to:

• receive a request for establishing an encrypted connection and obtaining a certificate responsive to the received request;
• generate a content cache key for the obtained certificate;
• retrieve, from the cache, a data structure comprising extracted data from a previous certificate wherein the retrieved data structure is generated by:
• validating the previous certificate by contacting an associated server to confirm accuracy of the extracted data;
• and
• storing the previous certificate and the data structure comprising the verified extracted data in the cache during a previous established encrypted connection;
• and
• initiate encryptographic operations using the retrieved data structure from the cache.

A network traffic manager apparatus, comprising memory comprising programmed instructions stored in the memory and one or more processors configured to be capable of executing the programmed instructions stored in the memory to:

• receive a request for establishing an encrypted connection and obtaining a certificate responsive to the received request;
• generate a content cache key for the obtained certificate;
• retrieve, from the cache, a data structure comprising extracted data from a previous certificate using the generated content cache key for the obtained certificate, wherein the retrieved data structure is generated by:
• validating the previous certificate by contacting an associated server to confirm accuracy of the extracted data;
• and
• storing the previous certificate and the data structure comprising the verified extracted data in the cache during a previous established encrypted connection;
• and
• initiate encryptographic operations using the retrieved data structure from the cache.

A network traffic management system, comprising one or more traffic management apparatuses, client devices, or server devices, the network traffic management system comprising memory comprising programmed instructions stored thereon and one or more processors configured to be capable of executing the stored programmed instructions to:

• receive a request for establishing an encrypted connection and obtaining a certificate responsive to the received request;
• generate a content cache key for the obtained certificate;
• retrieve, from the cache, a data structure comprising extracted data from a previous certificate using the generated content cache key for the obtained certificate, wherein the retrieved data structure is generated by:
• validating the previous certificate by contacting an associated server to confirm accuracy of the extracted data;
• and
• storing the previous certificate and the data structure comprising the verified extracted data in the cache during a previous established encrypted connection;
• and
• initiate encryptographic operations using the retrieved data structure from the cache.