Certificate Handling Method and System for Ensuring Secure Identification of Identities of Multiple Electronic Devices
First Claim
1. Certificate handling method for ensuring secure identification of identities of multiple electronic devices, whereinthe electronic devices can mutually authenticate each others identity without the use of a certificate authority;
- and whereinthe identities of a first electronic device (1) and a second electronic device (2) are mutually authenticated using a personal area network (11, 12) to establish a trust relationship between the first electronic device (1) and the second electronic device (2).
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a certificate handling method and system for ensuring secure identification of multiple electronic devices and especially to a method and a system for autonomously creating, transferring, verifying, issuing and status checking (e.g. revocation status) of digital certificates for electronic communication. The present invention provides a certificate handling method, wherein the electronic devices can mutually authenticate each others identity without the use of a certificate authority and the identities of a first electronic device and a second electronic device are mutually authenticated using a personal area network to establish a trust relationship between the first electronic device and the second electronic device.
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1. Certificate handling method for ensuring secure identification of identities of multiple electronic devices, wherein
the electronic devices can mutually authenticate each others identity without the use of a certificate authority; - and wherein
the identities of a first electronic device (1) and a second electronic device (2) are mutually authenticated using a personal area network (11, 12) to establish a trust relationship between the first electronic device (1) and the second electronic device (2). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
- and wherein
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