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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1999
Jonathan Scott Greenfield, Holly Springs, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided which allow “bootstrapping” of credentials by a client application using the well known certificate authority SSL capabilities of another installed application, such as a browser. A first secured session is established between the client and a server which has a certificate including a digital signature from a well known certificate authority. For example, a hypertext transport protocol over SSL (HTTPS) session may be established to the server by a browser such as Netscape™ or Internet Explorer™. An additional public key, or public key ring is then downloaded from the server to the client which may be subsequently used by the client to establish SSL sessions with servers that do not have a certificate from a well known certificate authority.