SECURE PUBLISHING OF PUBLIC-KEY CERTIFICATES

摘要

The current application is directed to methods and systems for secure distribution of public-key certificates using the domain name system with security extensions (“DNSSEC”), a publisher component, and additional client-side functionality. These methods and systems, when combined with public/private-key-based cryptography used for encrypting digitally encoded information, provides a computationally efficient and well-understood method and system for secure communications and digitally-encoded-information verification without current difficulties and inefficiencies attendant with distributing and managing the public keys used for encrypting digitally encoded information.