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A method, system and computer-readable medium for establishing secure connections using compressed cryptographic chaining certificates, the method including receiving a first compact representation corresponding to a certificate for validating a first entity at a second entity, retrieving a local list of one or more compact representations corresponding to one or more certificates locally available to the second entity, comparing the first compact representation to the one or more compact representations within the local list, determining if the first compact representation matches at least one of the one or more compact representations, retrieving the certificate corresponding to the at least one of the one or more compact representations if the first compact representation matches the at least one of the one or more compact representations and validating the first entity using the retrieved certificate corresponding to the at least one of the one or more compact representations.