Patent ID: 9565198
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for validating a custom signature, the method comprising: receiving, at a first server in a distributed network, a first request from a first client to validate a first signing certificate of a first user of a first message received by the first client wherein the first user sent the first message, and wherein the first signing certificate is from the first user of a first tenant; identifying, by the first server, the first tenant that relates to the first signing certificate from a plurality of tenants in response to the first request; accessing over the network, by the first server, a first tenant certificate collection from a first private tenant store on the distributed network after identifying the first tenant, wherein the first private tenant store is separate from the first tenant and the first server; loading, on the first server, the first tenant certificate collection from the first private tenant store as a first tenant virtual store upon receiving access to the first private tenant store; and performing validation of the first signing certificate using the first tenant virtual store by: