Patent ID: 8307202

Claim:
A method for a secure public key infrastructure (PKI) key registration process in a wireless PKI (WPKI) environment using a public-key cryptography standards (PKCS) registration standard, where the WPKI environment comprises a registration server being in data communication with a client provided with a key pair, and where a registration request for a public key of said key pair is provided to said registration server using the PKCS registration standard, the method comprising: a) delivering only part of the certificate request information defined on the PKCS registration standard to the client via a first data communication connection, b) forming a PKCS structure by the client using b1) at least portion of said part of the request info received in step a) and b2) the public key to be registered, c) determining a verifying code over at least part of the PKCS structure formed in step b), d) signing said verifying code by the client, and e) delivering only the signed verifying code and the public key to said registration server for registering.