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US 2011/0213967 A1Published application
Pre-encoding a cached certificate revocation list
AssigneeRed Hat, Inc.
InventorAndrew Wnuk
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Abstract
A method and system for pre-encoding a cached CRL is described.
Claims21
A method, implemented by a computing system of a certificate system programmed to perform the following, comprising:
- periodically searching a cached certificate revocation list (CRL), which contains a list of revoked certificates by a certificate authority (CA), to detect an entry of un-encoded information associated with at least one of the revoked certificates of the cached CRL, wherein the cached CRL is stored in memory of the computing system;
- for each detected entry of un-encoded information, encoding the respective un-encoded information by the computing system;
- and
- storing the encoded information in the respective entry of the cached CRL.
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A certificate system, comprising:
- a data storage device to store a cached certificate revocation list (CRL), which contains a list of revoked certificates by a certificate authority (CA);
- and
- a certificate manager, coupled to the data storage device, to periodically search the cached CRL to detect an entry of un-encoded information associated with at least one of the revoked certificates of the cached CRL, and wherein the certificate manager is to encode the respective un-encoded information for each detected entry of un-encoded information, and store the encoded information in the respective entry of the cached CRL.
A machine-readable storage medium having instructions, which when executed, cause a computing system to perform a method of pre-encoding entries of a cached certificate revocation list (CRL), which contains a list of revoked certificates by a certificate authority (CA), the method comprising:
- periodically searching the cached CRL to detect an entry of un-encoded information associated with at least one of the revoked certificates of the cached CRL;
- for each detected entry of un-encoded information, encoding the respective un-encoded information;
- and
- storing the encoded information in the respective entry of the cached CRL.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.