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BY RODNEY THAYER
Network World (U.S.)
What's the point of deploying a digital certificate infrastructure if you can't readily check the status of certificates? That's where CoreStreet Ltd.'s Real Time Credentials comes in.
In our test of this system, which uses the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP), we found that while its unique approach works as advertised, it might be overkill for most companies using a certificate infrastructure. The usefulness of this product will not be fully realized until more applications support OCSP.
CoreStreet provides certificate status services through a network of distributed OCSP responders, lightweight servers that do not contain sensitive cryptographic information and can be safely distributed throughout a company.
A central RTC Validation Authority (RTC VA) retrieves the...