Patent ID: 7533257
Filing Date: 2009-05-12
Classification: G06Q,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A server certificate verification method performed by a wireless LAN user terminal during Extensible Authentication Protocol authentication for Internet access, the method comprising: (a) receiving a server certificate from a wireless LAN authentication server, and transmitting a server certificate verification request message of the server certificate to the wireless LAN authentication server via a wireless LAN access server; (b) transmitting by the wireless LAN authentication server an On-line Certificate Status Protocol request message to an On-line Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) server to verify the server certificate; (c) receiving a result of the server certificate verification performed by the OCSP server using an Extensible Authentication Protocol packet from the wireless LAN authentication server; and (d) determining whether the result of the server certificate verification is valid.