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US 2006/0189306 A1Published application
System and method for supporting multiple certificate authorities on a mobile communication device
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsHerbert Little, Michael Brown
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Abstract
A system and method for supporting operations with multiple certification authorities (CAs) on a communication device. A common CA interface is provided between a plurality of secure communication applications and a plurality of CA-specific components, each of which interacts with a particular CA. A further common interface may also be provided for operatively coupling the secure communication applications to cryptographic components in the device.
Claims14
(canceled)
A mobile device, comprising:
- a plurality of certification authority (CA) provider components, each associated with a respective CA;
- and
- a common CA interface that receives a security-related request from a software application and communicates the security-related request to one of the plurality of CA provider components;
- the one CA provider component sending the security-related request received from the common CA interface to its respective associated CA.
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A mobile device, comprising:
- a plurality of certification authority (CA) provider components, each associated with a respective CA;
- means for receiving a security-related request from a software application;
- and
- means for communicating the security-related request to one of the plurality of CA provider components;
- the one CA provider component sending the security-related request to its respective associated CA.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.