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US 2011/0213965 A1Published application
Identity management certificate operations
AssigneeRed Hat, Inc.
InventorsChristina Fu, Andrew Wnuk
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Abstract
A method and system for identity management certificate operations is described.
Claims20
A method, implemented by a computing system programmed to perform operations, comprising:
- establishing a secure connection with a client computing system using an authentication protocol that uses symmetric-key cryptography;
- receiving, by an identity management system of the computing system, a request from a client agent of the client computing system over the secure connection to perform a certificate operation associated with a certificate;
- determining whether to approve the request from the client agent;
- and
- sending the request to a certificate authority (CA) to perform the certificate operation when approved, wherein the identity management system is a trusted manager of the CA.
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An identity management system, comprising:
- a key distribution center (KDC), wherein the KDC is configured to establish a secure connection with a client computing system using an authentication protocol that uses symmetric-key cryptography;
- and
- a registration authority (RA) coupled to receive a request from a client agent of the client computing system over the secure connection to perform a certificate operation associated with a certificate, wherein the RA is configured to determine whether to approve the request from the client agent and to send the request to a certificate authority (CA) to perform the certificate operation when approved, wherein the RA is a trusted manager of the CA.
A machine-readable storage medium having instructions, which when executed, cause a computing device to perform a method comprising:
- establishing a secure connection with a client computing system using an authentication protocol that uses symmetric-key cryptography;
- receiving a request from a client agent of the client computing system over the secure connection to perform a certificate operation associated with a certificate;
- determining whether to approve the request from the client agent;
- and
- sending the request to a certificate authority (CA) to perform the certificate operation when approved.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.