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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Karsten Graul, Schlaitdorf, DE;
Marco H. Kroll, Boeblingen, DE;
Jakob C. Lang, Weil im Schoenbuch, DE;
Rene Trumpp, Geislingen, DE;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for anonymous secure socket layer (SSL) certificate verification in a trusted group. In some embodiments, a device associated with a user receiving a web server certificate from a web server. A message that includes the web server certificate and associated universal resource locator (URL) may be encrypted using a group key and a proxy key. The message may be transmitted to a proxy server. An anonymized request based on the message may be received from the proxy server. An encrypted response may be generated and transmitted to the proxy server. Encrypted and anonymized responses from members of a trusted group may be received. The responses may be processed and an action associated with the web server certificate may be facilitated.