Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Alexey A Nikitin

Nathan Bartholomew Thomas

Malcolm Russell Ah Kun

Prasanna Subash

Jeffery David Wells

Brian Scott Waters

Lihao Wang

Zhenghong Sun

Harshit Kumar Tiwari

Chao Li

Venkatesh Velaga

Uday Bheema

Himesh Pandya

Ankur Goyal

Anand Krishnamoorthy

A computer server controls access to a hosted service using digital certificates that are requested from each client attempting to access the service. When a particular client accesses the hosted service, the host service requests a digital certificate from the particular client and issues a challenge message. The particular client signs the challenge message and provides a client digital certificate to the hosted service. The hosted service confirms that the signature on the challenge message matches the client digital certificate, and that the client digital certificate is signed by a trusted entity. Trusted entities are defined by an administrator by uploading, to the hosted service, one or more trusted digital certificates associated with a trusted entities. Using the trusted digital certificates, the hosted service confirms that the digital certificate provided by the particular client is signed by at least one of the trusted entities.

Certificate-based service authorization

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Alexey A Nikitin