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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
May. 24, 2007
Kenneth W. Aull, Fairfax, VA (US);
Kenneth W. Aull, Fairfax, VA (US);
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique for automatically obtaining a second certificate for a user using a first certificate includes accessing a server platform using a user's server and the first certificate of the user to create a connection that authenticates both the user's server identity via a server certificate of the user server and the user's identity via the user's first certificate. A secure data channel is then created between the server platform and the user platform. A request for the second certificate is forwarded by the user from the user server to the server platform and the sever platform then generates the second certificate. The first certificate may be a signature certificate and the second certificate may be an encryption certificate.