Patent ID: 8856527

Claim:
A method comprising: providing, by a processing device, a graphical user interface for creating a digital certificate profile for a digital certificate, the graphical user interface presenting a plurality of certificate profile attributes selectable by a user; calculating a security metric using at least two attributes of the plurality of certificate profile attributes, the security metric indicating vulnerability of the digital certificate having the digital certificate profile; calculating a usability metric using at least two other attributes of the plurality of certificate profile attributes, the usability metric indicating ease of use of the digital certificate having the digital certificate profile; providing a first slider representing the security metric and a second slider representing the usability metric in the graphical user interface; determining a set of certificate profile attributes from the plurality of certificate profile attributes based on user input specifying a position of at least one of the first slider or the second slider in the graphical user interface; and updating one or more certificate profile attribute selections in the graphical user interface based on the determined set of certificate profile attributes.