Pki gateway
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsSitaraman Suthamali Lakshminarayanan, Temidayo Temidoyo Yembra
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Abstract
A PKI gateway allows an enterprise to maintain a limited number of PKI protocol interfaces while servicing every standard and proprietary PKI protocol used by a customer of the enterprise. The PKI gateway listens for a PKI management request, adds contextual information needed by the certificate authority, translates the request into the appropriate protocol, and executes the request.
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A public key infrastructure (PKI) gateway to provide secure communication between an enterprise and one or more customers, the enterprise using a first set of protocols to communicate with the PKI gateway and the one or more customers using a second set of protocols to communicate with the PKI gateway, the PKI gateway comprising:
- a protocol listener configured to listen for a PKI management request;
- a protocol translator configured to translate the request from a protocol among the first set of protocols to a protocol among the second set of protocols or from a protocol among the second set of protocols to a protocol among the first set of protocols;
- and
- a certificate management engine to ensure execution of the translated request.
A method of providing secure communication between an enterprise and one or more customers, the enterprise using a first set of protocols to communicate with a PKI gateway and the one or more customers using a second set of protocols to communicate with the PKI gateway, the method comprising:
- listening for a PKI management request at the PKI gateway;
- translating the request from a protocol among the first set of protocols to a protocol among the second set of protocols or from a protocol among the second set of protocols to a protocol among the first set of protocols at the PKI gateway;
- and
- executing the translated request.
A computer-readable medium configured to store a set of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method of providing secure communication between an enterprise and one or more customers, the enterprise using a first set of protocols to communicate with a PKI gateway and the one or more customers using a second set of protocols to communicate with the PKI gateway, the method comprising:
- listening for a PKI management request at the PKI gateway;
- translating the request from a protocol among the first set of protocols to a protocol among the second set of protocols or from a protocol among the second set of protocols to a protocol among the first set of protocols at the PKI gateway;
- and
- executing the translated request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.