Patent ID: 7966487

Claim:
A method of facilitating a transaction between a first party and a second party, comprising: prior to initiating the transaction, one of the parties obtaining and storing in a computer readable storage medium an artificially pre-computed OCSP response about a specific digital certificate, wherein the artificially pre-computed OCSP response is generated by an entity other than the first party and the second party, wherein the artificially pre-computed OCSP response is generated independently of a request by either party about validity of the specific digital certificate; one of the parties initiating the transaction; in connection with the transaction, the first party providing the specific digital certificate to the second party; and the second party retrieving the artificially pre-computed OCSP response, the artificially pre-computed OCSP response having been previously stored in the computer storage medium prior to initiation of the transaction, and verifying the validity of the specific digital certificate using the artificially pre-computed OCSP response.