Patent ID: 8621204
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of determining a status of a client certificate from a plurality of responses for an Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) request, the method comprising: (a) identifying, by an intermediary device between a plurality of clients and one or more servers, a plurality of Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responders executing on the intermediary device and corresponding to a certificate authority for determining a status of a client certificate responsive to receiving the client certificate from a client during a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) handshake; (b) transmitting, by each of the plurality of OCSP responders, a request for the status of the client certificate to a uniform resource locator corresponding to each OCSP responder, while remaining portions of the SSL handshake are performed without the status of the client certificate; and (c) determining, by the intermediary device, a single status for the client certificate from a plurality of statuses of the client certificate received via responses from each uniform resource locator.