interoperability
of certificates
Your applications are not able to verify a certificate coming from a
business partner? Your business partner is not able to check your
certificates?
In many cases interoperability of certificates is still a problem.
Why?
Each application, wanting to process a certificate, needs to
undergo certain checks. These technical extensive checks are dealt
with in different manners by each application - due to this security
risks and interoperabilty problems emerge.
Not only the different realisation of verification poses
difficulties - in order to be able to perform these inquiries
certain information is necessary.
You have to define the information which PKI you would like to rely
on ( trustworthy certification authorities also described
as root certificate or trust anchor) as well as the
information of which certificates out of which current PKI are
revoked
(
certificate-validation). This
information changes constantely and for security reasons there has
to be a permanent update - ongoing spreading of information has to
take place.
In order to solve the problems occuring and to simplify the
application development you just have to outsource the tasks in a
network to a special designed server. These so called
validationserver resp. "Validation Authorities" solve the
above mentioned problems. They are the central point for different
applications and will give you an answer to the question: "Is
this certificate trustworthy or not?"
How to solve your problems with the most flexible
validationserver SyTrust CertControl
on the market, please chose the key-word "architecture".
By using CertControl you can solve most of your problems with a
multiplicity of applications.
Always abiding by our slogan:
security simply works.
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