For providing this free service, SyTrust is nominated for the German Internet Award 2003 (read our application in German here). SyTrust respectively the free certificate validation service Openvalidation.org is nominated in the category "internet based services and content". Being amongst 10 nominees of 737 applications makes us very proud. We will strive to improve this service with substantial enhancements in the near future. Stay tuned.

OpenValidation.org provides several services

general PKI information and OCSP related marketoverview

OCSP application test with a professional OCSP responder

OCSP responder service chaining to individual locations

Online OCSP requests for most common CAs

OCSP certificate validation with Mozilla/Netscape

OpenValidation supports free PKI project for Universities

OpenValidation prepares trustworthiness rating of certificates

OpenValidation supports ValidationWorks OCSP Client

Openvalidation.org provides extensive information about PKI, OCSP and CRL and gives a short market overview about OCSP enabled products.

Developers can use prepared certificates to test the functionality of their OCSP-enabled client applications with a professional OCSP Responder via IP.

Small companies can use the OCSP responder to process their own certificate status requests by chaining their requests to a location of their choice and ensure by the way that all responses concerning certificates issued by their CA are chained to the correct responder.

OpenValidation.org provides the possibility to validate certificates issued by most common CAs via OCSP. An OCSP request could easily be sent to our public Responder via Web interface and it is described how to configure Mozilla/Netscape browsers to enable OCSP validation via Openvalidation.org.

As new service OpenValidation.org provides additional trustworthiness ratings for certificates validated from OpenValidation.org OCSP service.

ValidationWorks is a new OCSP client that enables applications like Microsoft Outlook or Internet Explorer for automised status checking of handled certificates. Additionally to OCSP certificate validation, ValidationWorks supports trustworthiness information of verified certificates. OpenValidation.org supports ValidationWorks as default validation authority and thus provides a free plattform for realtime certificate status check to private users.

All provided services of this site are completely free of charge and only
for non commercial use!!!

If a certain OCSP Responder, product, Certificate Authotity or other services are not listed or supported here please mail us.

The OpenValidation.org OCSP Responder service is based on SyTrust CertControl.