SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING AND RECOVERING CERTIFICATES, AND COMPUTER-READY MEANS

摘要

system and method for searching and retrieving certificates, and software application for running on a computing device a system and method for searching and retrieving certificates, which may be used to process encrypted messages. broadly speaking, a message management server generates certificate identification data from a message that uniquely identifies the certificate associated with the message. Certificate identification data can then be used to determine if a localized certificate data retrieved from one or more certificate servers in response to a certificate fetch request is the certificate associated with the message. Only certificate identification data is required to facilitate determination on the user's computing device (for example, a mobile device), alleviating the need for the user to download the entire message to the computing device for determination.