Central and implicit certificate management

摘要

Facilitating management of digital certificates is addressed. More specifically, digital certificates as well as public and private keys can be stored in a centrally accessible location and dynamically acquired from the location as needed. Additionally, binding of digital certificates and associated keys can be implicit and determined as a function of a host name provided during protocol negotiation, for example.

主权项

1. A method of facilitating certificate management, comprising:
employing at least one processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions stored in memory to perform the following acts: receiving a request, including a host name, for secure communication from a client; determining a digital certificate name based at least on the host name and a digital certificate naming convention; confirming that a digital certificate exists on a network-accessible central store by comparing the digital certificate name with a set of one or more digital certificate names stored locally on a server; acquiring the digital certificate from the network-accessible central store; and returning the digital certificate to the client in response to the request.