269 results about "Revocation list" patented technology

A method for providing a token revocation list is disclosed. The method includes maintaining a status for each of a plurality of tokens in a token revocation database. Token validation requests are received, and the statuses of payment tokens can be determined. Response messages with the statuses of the payment tokens are then sent to token status requesters so that they may make decisions on whether or not to use them to process transactions.

A system, and method related thereto, for providing a vehicular communications network public-key infrastructure. The system comprises a plurality of communications infrastructure nodes and a plurality of vehicles each having a communications component. The communications component provides vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications, and communications via infrastructure nodes. A communications security component in each of the plurality of vehicles provides security for the communications between the plurality of vehicles using a plurality of security modules. The security modules include a certificate management module. A public key interface module may include a public key, a private key, an anonymous key and a management key. The system further includes a detection and response module for attack detection and attack mitigation. The communications security component assigns and installs at least one security key, a certificate of operation, and a current certificate revocation list. The communications component provides secure communications between the plurality of vehicles.

A digital rights management method includes a stage for a device to update a Certificate Revocation List of the device through a connection to a portable storage, a stage to access to the updated Certificate Revocation List so as to judge the effectiveness of a certificate of the portable storage, and a stage to maintain communication with the portable storage, if the judgment proves the effectiveness of the portable storage.

A system and method for assigning certificates and reducing the size of the certificate revocation lists in a PKI based architecture for a vehicle wireless communications system that includes separating a country, or other area, into geographic regions and assigning region-specific certificates to the vehicles. Therefore, a vehicle need only process certificates and certificate revocation lists for the particular region that it is traveling in. Vehicles can be assigned multiple certificates corresponding to more than one region in the vehicles vicinity as advance preparation for possible travel or transmission into nearby regions. Further, the expiration time of certificates assigned to vehicles corresponding to a given geographic region can be tailored to be inversely proportional to the distance from a registered home region of the vehicle. A scalable design for a back-end certifying authority with region-based certificates can also be provided.

A system and method for retrieving certificate of trust information for a certificate validation process. Fetching servers periodically retrieve certificate revocation lists (CRLs) from servers maintained by various certificate issuers. The revoked certificate data included in the retrieved CRLs are stored in a central database. An authentication server receives a request from a client for access to a secure service and initiates a validation process. The authentication server retrieves revoked certificate data from the central database and compares the retrieved revoked certificate data to certificate of trust information received from the client along with the request. The authentication server denies access to the secure information if the certificate of trust information matches revoked certificate data from the central database, allows access if the certificate of trust information does not match revoked certificate data from the central database.

Methods and systems in accordance with the present invention efficiently validate digital certificates by answering Online Certificate Status Protocol (“OCSP”) requests without Certificate Revocation Lists (“CRL”). During validation of digital certificates, these methods and systems speed transmission, reduce required bandwidth and reduce required data storage by eliminating the need for the transmission of lengthy CRLs from a Certificate Authority (“CA”) when verifying a digital certificate from a client. In one implementation, they send a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (“LDAP”) database query to a CA directory server to determine and pinpoint the existence of a valid digital certificate and check its validity without receiving a long list of data, such as a CRL, from a CA. The CA directory server returns the query result, and the database query in the CA directory server is performed faster than using an entire CRL, and furthermore, the transmission of the database query result is a small piece of information and does not require the large amounts of data transmission bandwidth and storage as required with transmitting CRL's.

A revocation list is registered a public ROM area. The revocation list designates at least one electronic device in which use of the storage medium by the designated electronic device is to be revoked. A controller receives from the electronic device which attempts to access, identification information indicative of the electronic device, and checks whether identification information corresponding to the received identification information is contained in the revocation list, thereby determining whether or not use of the storage medium by the electronic device which attempts to access should be revoked.

A system and method is provided for managing digital certificates, the system including one or more a certificate authorities and a vehicle-bound digital certificate manager, the apparatus comprising: a mobile client having a wireless transceiver with internet protocol capabilities and a vehicle communication device; the client further including at least one processor and at least one non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions, which when loaded on the at least one computer, establishes processes for information handling, comprising: establishing secure communications with a certificate authority to receive at least one of a Vehicle Identification Digital Certificate (“VIDC”), an Anonymous Vehicle digital Certificate (“AVDC”), and a Certificate Revocation Lists (“CRLs”); storage management of at least one of the VIDC, AVDCs, and CRLs; and forwarding of at least one of the VIDC, AVDCs, and CRLs received from the certificate authority to the digital certificate manager using the vehicle communication device.

A license server (10) includes a CRL database (306) holding a revocation list recording therein classes predetermined corresponding respectively to a memory device, such as a memory card, and a content reproduction circuit, such as a cellular phone, that are subjected to revocation of distributing, reproducing and transferring content data. A distribution control unit (315) suspends an operation distributing content data if the distribution is addressed to a class listed on the revocation list. The revocation list is also held in the memory card and distribution control unit (315) in distributing content also transmits information for updating the revocation list in the memory card.

A validation authority for certificates searches for and verifies paths and certificate revocation lists periodically, and classifies the paths into valid paths and invalid paths in accordance with the results of the validations, so as to register the paths in databases beforehand. Besides, in a case where a request for authenticating the validity of a certificate has been received from an end entity, the validation authority judges the validity of the public key certificate by checking in which of the valid-path database and the invalid-path database a path corresponding to the request is registered. On the other hand, in a case where the path corresponding to the validity authentication request is not registered in either of the databases, the validity of the public key certificate is authenticated by performing path search and validation anew.

A method of providing certificate issuance and revocation checks involving mobile devices in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). The wireless devices communicate with each other via Bluetooth wireless technology in the MANET with an access point (AP) to provide connectivity to the Internet. A Certificate authority (CA) distributes certificates and certification revocation lists (CRLs) to the devices via the access point (AP). Each group of devices has the name of the group associated with the certificate and signed by the CA. A device that is out of the radio range of the access point may still connect to the CA to validate a certificate or download the appropriate CRL by having all the devices participate in the MANET.

Access to information is controlled by maintaining, for a given device or other entity through which information may be accessed, a contact list that includes information identifying one or more other entities which have attempted to communicate with the given entity. In accordance with the invention, the contact list is utilized in conjunction with a revocation list stored in a memory associated with the given entity in order to determine which of the other entities are authorized to communicate with the given entity. The contact list includes a number of entries, each entry having at least an identifier of a particular one of the other entities and a corresponding revocation flag indicating whether the particular entity has been revoked. The contact list is updated after a modification of the revocation list, or if a new entity not already included in the contact list attempts to communicate with the given entity.

A method and system for distributed certificate management in an ad-hoc network including a plurality of nodes, the method includes making a certificate revocation list (CRL), distributing the CRL among the plurality of nodes, receiving portions of the distributed CRL from a predetermined number of nodes, and reconstructing the CRL by combining the portions of the distributed CRL.

A method of managing certificates in a communication system having a certifying authority and a directory. Preferably, the method begins by having the certifying authority generate certificates by digitally signing a given piece of data. At a later point time, the certifying authority may produce a string that proves whether a particular certificate is currently valid without also proving the validity of at least some other certificates. The technique obviates use of certification revocation lists communicated between the certifying authority and the directory.

A set of certificate management methods designed to significantly reduce or eliminate reliance on infrastructure network connectivity after vehicles are sold uses techniques to support certificate management operations in order to reduce the frequency which vehicles need to communicate with the Certificate Authorities (CAs) and the amount of data that needs to be exchanged between vehicles and the CA. These methods include, for example, approaches to use one-way communications and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications to replace expired certificates, approaches to use one-way communications and V2V communications to replace revoked certificates, and use of a small subset of vehicles as proxies to help retrieve and distribute Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) and replacement certificates. The combination of these techniques leads to solutions that can eliminate the need for roadside infrastructure networks completely.

Embodiments of the present invention provide identity management security domains that may be used in an enterprise security system. A security domain provides a centralized registry of services provided by the enterprise security system. For example, certificate authorities and other services, such as key archives, and the like, in the enterprise security system may register information about themselves in the security domain. Authorized users can then discover the location of these services. In some embodiments, the security domain may provide an interface that indicates a topology between services of the enterprise security system. The security domain may also serve as a distribution point for security policies. A security policy may comprise information that indicates, for example, a set of trusted certificate authorities, certificate templates, certificate revocation lists, and the locations of the services in the enterprise security system.

A method is provided for obtaining a certificate revocation list (CRL) for a vehicle in a vehicle-to-vehicle communication system. A portable security unit is provided to access secured operations for the vehicle. The portable security unit is linked to a device having access to a communication network. The communication network is in communication with a certificate authority for issuing an updated CRL. The updated CRL is downloaded from the certificate authority to the portable security unit. At a later time, when a user enters the vehicle, a communication link is established between the portable security unit and a vehicle processor unit. Mutual authentication is exchanged between the portable security unit and the vehicle processing unit. The updated CRL stored in the portable security unit is downloaded to a memory of the vehicle communication system in response to a successful mutual authentication.

In some embodiments, a method and apparatus for enhanced revocation of direct proof and direct anonymous attestation are described. In one embodiment a trusted hardware device verifies that membership of the device within a trusted membership group is not revoked according to a revocation list received with a challenge request from a verifier. Once such verification is performed, the device convinces the verifier of possessing cryptographic information without revealing unique, device identification information of the trusted hardware device or the cryptographic information. In one embodiment, the trusted hardware device computes a digital signature on a message received with the challenge request to the verifier if membership of the anonymous hardware device within a trusted membership group is verified. In one embodiment, the verifier authenticates the digital signature according to a public key of the trusted membership group to enable a trusted member device to remain anonymous to the verifier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

A GUID as title information and a global serial number are recorded in a BCA of a digital video disc 60. A hash value of the GUID is embedded as an electronic watermark in a data area 64. When content data is reproduced from the digital video disc 60, a match of information of the two GUIDs is checked so as to prevent the digital video disc 60 from being illegally copied. A lead-in area 63 and a managing organization 20 provide disc revocation lists. With a global serial number and a disc revocation list, content data can be prevented from being reproduced from an illegally distributed disc. A film WM detector 84 detects data embedded in a movie shown in a theater so as to prevent content data from being reproduced from a disc on which the embedded data is recorded. Thus, content data can be prevented from being reproduced from an illegally distributed disc before a copyright supervisor of the content authorizes the disc to be distributed.

For group signature data capable of keeping anonymity, it is possible to efficiently determine whether the user having created the group signature data is a valid member of the group. When a message and group signature data are received, the verification unit 3 authenticates the data and inquires, of the member status response unit 4, whether the user of the signature unit 2 having created the group signature data is a valid member of the group. In response to the inquiry, the response unit 4 determines the member status of the user having created the group signature data, according to a member revocation list notified from the group management unit 1. The response unit 4 then transmits a judge result of the member status to the verification unit 3.