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US 2008/0301451 A1Published application
Verifying authenticity of an attribute value signature
AssigneeRed Hat, Inc.
InventorSteven W. Parkinson
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for verifying authenticity of a digital signature for an attribute value. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a message including an attribute value of an attribute from a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) repository entry and a digital signature, and verifying that the digital signature authenticates the attribute value.
Claims21
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a message including an attribute value of an attribute from a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) repository entry and a digital signature;
- and
- verifying that the received digital signature authenticates the attribute value.
A system comprising:
- a memory to store a message including an attribute value of an attribute from a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) repository entry and a digital signature;
- and
- a processor, coupled to the memory, to receive the message with the attribute value and the digital signature and to verify that the received digital signature authenticates the attribute value.
An article of manufacture, comprising:
- a machine-accessible storage medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a message including an attribute value of an attribute from a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) repository entry and a digital signature;
- and
- verifying that the received digital signature authenticates the attribute value.
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