DYNAMIC CERTIFICATE GENERATION ON A CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY CLOUD

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for dynamically generating a digital certificate for a customer server. A customer server creates a certificate profile and receives an associated profile identifier from a certificate authority (CA). The customer server installs an agent application received from the CA. The agent application generates a public/private key pair and an identifier associated with the customer server. The agent application sends a signed request to the CA that includes the profile identifier, server identifier, and the public key corresponding to the key pair. Upon receiving the credentials, the CA generates a dynamically updatable certificate. Thereafter, if the customer changes information associated with the certificate (or if external conditions require a change to the certificate, such as a key compromise or change in security standards), the CA may generate an updated certificate based on the certificate profile changes and the public key.

主权项

1. A method for updating a digital certificate, the method comprising:
monitoring a certificate profile of a first certificate to detect a change in the certificate profile, in response to a detected change, sending a request to a certificate authority (CA) to generate a second certificate, wherein the request includes a first public key, a server identifier, and a profile identifier, and wherein attributes of the second certificate reflect the detected change in the certificate profile; receiving the second certificate from the CA; and deploying the second certificate on a server in place of the first certificate.