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Digital certificate issuer-correlated digital signature verification

  • US 9,749,139 B2
  • Filed: 06/28/2016
  • Issued: 08/29/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • receiving, at a processor, a message comprising a digital signature of a message originator;

    determining, in response to determining that the message originator is authorized by a data protection policy to originate the message, whether a specific authorized certificate issuer is required for the message originator within the data protection policy; and

    in response to determining that the specific authorized certificate issuer is required for the message originator within the data protection policy;

    determining whether a message originator certificate used to generate the digital signature of the message originator is issued by the specific authorized certificate issuer required for the message originator within the data protection policy.

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