Identix Corporation

Alex Balashov

Yuri Khidekel

Sergey Kisurin

A method and computer program product for accessing a secure resource using a certificate bound with authentication information. In one implementation, the method includes receiving a certificate request from a user, the certificate request including identification information and authentication information associated with the user; verifying the identification information; issuing a certificate to the user when the identification information is verified; and sending the authentication information and a certificate identifier for the certificate to an authentication server. According to one aspect, the sending step includes signing a combination of the authentication information and the certificate identifier to form a unique user identifier; signing the authentication information; and sending the unique user identifier to the authentication server.

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Dublin, CA, United States of America

Alex Balashov