About ActivID® Validation Authority

The ActivID® Validation Suite provides an infrastructure for validating the revocation status of digital certificates using Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) and Server-based Certificate Validation Protocol (SCVP). The suite includes two infrastructure components. The ActivID Validation Authority (VA) component ensures the accuracy of the certificate status information. The ActivID Validation Responder (VR) component ensures the timeliness and availability of certificate status information.

The Validation Suite provides an infrastructure for validating the revocation status of digital certificates using the OCSP and SCVP protocols.

The core operational tasks of the ActivID Validation Suite are:

• To maintain accurate certificate status information, and

• To distribute accurate certificate status information in a timely fashion to relying party applications and remote subscribers.

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