Optimized certification is a new method for efficient certificate path verification and digital
signing. The basic idea is to issue special certificates (called optimized certificates) for an
electronic document to replace the signer's certificate. Optimized certificates are issued to be
only valid for a specific time, ie, the fields notBefore and notAfter of the certificate are the
same. Therefore, certificate revocation are not a requirement as it is no longer necessary to
request the status of certificates from a certification authority repository to validate …

… ● What information will be included in a signed document in order to validate it? …
OCCA's certificate and its Validation … ● Optimal document representation ● No external
consult needed to validate an OC ● Low costs of certificate validation and storage ●
Suitable to environments of limited in energy, …