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US 2006/0053483 A1Published application
Methods and systems for automated authentication, processing and issuance of digital certificates
AssigneeGeoTrust, Inc.
InventorsDouglas Beattie, Neal Creighton, Christopher Bailey, David Remy, Hani Hamandi
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Abstract
A computer system and process for issuing digital certificates use domain-control vetting to issue certificates. A requestor requests a certificate from a certificate authority, which identifies at least one approver to approve issuance of the digital certificate. If approved, the certificate authority accepts the request, creates and signs the certificate, and the signed certificate is sent to the requester.
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A method comprising:
- a requestor submitting a request for a digital credential to a certificate authority;
- the certificate authority identifying at least one approver to approve issuance of the digital certificate.
- the certificate authority contacting an identified approver to obtain approval for issuance of the digital credential to the requestor;
- the certificate authority receiving a response from the approver;
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- the certificate authority issuing a digital credential upon receipt of approval from the approver.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, from a requester, a certificate signing request (CSR) for a digital certificate;
- requesting from the requestor an approver email address;
- receiving from the requestor an approver email address;
- determining if the approver email address is of the form title@domain_name, where “domain_name” is a domain name of an entity for which the digital certificate is requested, and “title” is a name selected from a group of titles consisting of “admin”, “administrator”, “support”, “webmaster”, hostmaster”, “info”, “ssladmin”, and “sysadmin”;
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- providing certificate information to the approver at the approver email address if the address has the said form.
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