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Certification validation system

  • US 20020053023A1
  • Filed: 02/28/2001
  • Published: 05/02/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A certificate validation mechanism for a network interface, the certificate validation mechanism being operable to maintain a certificate cache that records certificates on which verification of validity has been performed along with an associated indication of validity resulting from the validity verification and being operable to check whether a received certificate is recorded in the certificate cache and, where the received certificate is recorded in the certificate cache, to associate with the received certificate an indication of validity retrieved from the certificate cache.

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