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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

John F. Behnken, Hurley, NY (US);

Yaser K. Doleh, North Royalton, OH (US);

Mauro Marzorati, Lutz, FL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0823 (2013.01); H04L 63/123 (2013.01);
Abstract

A digital certificate incorporated within a communication is received from a server associated with a host name. Resource records associated with the host name are caused to be queried for a list of certificate authorities. In response to causing the resource records to be queried, the list of certificate authorities is received. A certificate authority is identified within the received digital certificate. The identified certificate authority is compared to the received list of certificate authorities. A determination is made, based on the comparison, that the identified certificate authority is included in the received list of certificate authorities.


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