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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2023
Digicert, Inc., Lehi, UT (US);
Avesta Hojjati, Austin, TX (US);
DigiCert, Inc., Lehi, UT (US);
Abstract
A method of issuing a digital certificate includes receiving a certificate signing request (CSR) from an entity; determining a public key of the entity from the CSR; applying encryption to the public key; checking whether a result of the encryption is in a database to determine whether the public key has been previously used; and responsive to the public key not having been previously used, issuing a certificate to the entity based on the public key and the CSR. The method can further include, responsive to the public key having been previously used, alerting the entity to resubmit the CSR with a public key that has not been previously used or inquiring from the entity whether to proceed to issuing the certificate despite previous use. The encryption can be fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).