Patent ID: 9537854
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing digital certificate enrollment data, the method comprising: generating, by operation of one or more computer processors, a public key corresponding to a private key stored on a server, wherein the server is blocked from establishing a network connection with a certificate authority; storing the public key in a certificate signing request (CSR) to be sent to the certificate authority by a mobile device as the certificate enrollment data; generating at least a first encoding of the CSR storing the public key, wherein the first encoding includes one or more quick response (QR) codes encoding the certificate signing request; and rendering a display of the first encoding of the CSR storing the public key, wherein the mobile device is configured to read the rendered display of the first encoding and wherein the mobile device includes a camera configured recover the CSR from first encoding and wherein the mobile device transmits the CSR to the certificate authority.