1. Receive certficate from DBL 2. Extract certficate-data and message digest from certficate 3. Message digest for certficate-data.txt 4. Base64 decode digestsignature.b64 into digestsignature.bin 5. Extract message digest from digestsignature.bin into extracted_datadigest.txt 6. Compare datadigest.txt with extracted_datadigest.txt