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US 8,028,162 B2Granted
Methods and systems for automated authentication, processing and issuance of digital certificates
AssigneeGeoTrust, Inc.
InventorsDouglas D. Beattie, Neal Lewis Creighton, Jr., Christopher T. M. Bailey, David L. Remy, Hani Hamandi
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Abstract
A computer system and process for issuing digital certificates use domain-control vetting to issue certificates. A requestor requests a certificate from a certificate authority, which identifies at least one approver to approve issuance of the digital certificate. If approved, the certificate authority accepts the request, creates and signs the certificate, and the signed certificate is sent to the requester.
Claims8
A method comprising:
- receiving, from a requestor, a certificate signing request (CSR) for a digital certificate;
- requesting from the requestor an approver e-mail address;
- receiving from the requestor an approver e-mail address;
- determining if the approver e-mail address is of the form title@domain_name, where “domain_name” is a domain name of an entity for which the digital certificate is requested, and “title” is a name selected from a group of titles consisting of “admin”, “administrator”, “support”, “webmaster”, hostmaster”, “info”, “ssladmin”, and “sysadmin”;
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- providing certificate information to the approver at the approver e-mail address if the address has the said form.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.