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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2000
Jean-francois Le Pennec, Nice, FR;
Olivier Hericourt, Cagnes sur Mer, FR;
Jean-Francois Le Pennec, Nice, FR;
Olivier Hericourt, Cagnes sur Mer, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system as disclosed for use in a virus-free certificate proxy (), of retrieving from one or a plurality of virus-free certificate authorities () a virus-free certificate () certifying that a file is virus-free. The method includes the steps of: receiving () virus-free certificate request for a file; selecting a virus-free certificate authority () having authority to generate a virus-free certificate () for the file; requesting () the virus-free certificate to the selected virus-free certificate authority (); receiving () from the selected virus-free certificate authority the generated virus-free certificate; sending back () in response to the virus-free certificate request the received virus-free certificate.