US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 21 for "Limiting power of untrusted certificate authorities" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,527, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Limiting power of untrusted certificate authorities" was invented by Radia J. Perlman (Redmond, Wash.) and Charles W. Kaufman (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Limiting power of untrusted certificate authorities is disclosed. An unstructured list of certificate authorities associated with an application may be augmented with a limiting database that includes a per target certificate authority list. For targets identified in the limiting database, the certificate of an entity may be trusted only when the certificate authority is in the target's...