It said users can now increase the scale and speed of their digital certificate infrastructure without the need for additional hardware security modules.
Validation Authority is used to build a framework for validating digital certificates in real time. The process of certificate validation is similar to the process used to authorize credit card transactions. Client or server software is used to check signed data using another private key to verify that the certificate is valid. Each certificate is then checked to determine that it has not been revoked.
Version 4.7 of the Valicert system is said to use Online Certificate Status Protocol caching to speed the validation process. OCSP is designed to check the certificate revocation status exclusively.
The merged Tumbleweed and Valicert operation is concentrating on selling anti-spam and anti-virus email firewalls and content filters, messaging and file transfer security software, and identity validation systems to authorize users and let them attach digital signatures to files and transactions.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
