Patent ID: 11895250
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A method for digital certificate management, the digital certificates being for use in authentication operations by entities operable to perform computing on digital values and to communicate with each other, wherein each digital certificate cannot be used until activated by an activation code associated with the digital certificate, the method comprising:
transmitting a certificate request by a first entity to a registration authority (RA), the certificate request requesting one or more digital certificates for the first entity;
wherein responsive to the certificate request the RA obtains node value data associated with the first entity using information on the first entity, transmits a certificate generation request to a certificate authority (CA), each certificate generation request comprising one or more associated activation codes generated for the note value data:
wherein the CA is unable to link the certificate generation request to the first entity and is operable to generate from the certificate generation request a digital encrypted package comprising an associated digital certificate; and
receiving the digital encrypted package by the first entity, wherein the first entity is operable to recover the associated digital certificate using an activation code generated for node value data associated with the first entity.