Are you already using certificates within your company or do you plan this for the near future? Especially for transactions which need confidentiality and authenticity certificates are used. Beside the verification of the signature and the certificate's originality it is also necessary to verify the certificate's validity, i.e. whether it was revoked or not. This can be done by using of revocation lists in which all revoked certificates are listed. However most of the times only the status of one specific certificate is of interest, the other revocation list's information is dispensable. How is it possible to design the certificate status request easily and fast?

Solution OCSP responder

The NOVOSEC's OCSP responder is the solution. It offers an easy and fast online status request for the digital certificates via OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol). Thus, the increased security standards are met.

You are interested in using an OCSP responder? Please send an email with your contact data and with reference to "OCSP responder" to contact@novosec.com.