Patent ID: 9444631
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a certificate in a compact format and instructions configured to cause a processor to authenticate the certificate in the compact format, wherein the certificate comprises a plurality of elements in the following order: a top-level tag that indicates that the encoded data is the certificate in the compact format, wherein the top-level tag comprises 0:4:1; a serial number field tagged with a tag of 1 in hexadecimal that uniquely identifies the certificate as issued by a certificate authority; a signature algorithm field tagged with a tag of 2 in hexadecimal that indicates a type of signature algorithm used to generate the signature; an issuer field tagged with a tag of 3 in hexadecimal that includes a path that identifies the issuer for the certificate; an encoded version of a public key tagged with a tag of A in hexadecimal; and a signature field tagged with a tag of C in hexadecimal, wherein each field includes the respective tags and corresponding values encoded in a tag-length-value (TLV) format, wherein authentication of the certificate is based at least in part on any two of the plurality of elements.