Symmetric key distribution framework for the Internet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9015484-B2
Application number	US-201313953594-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 29, 2013
Priority date	Dec 14, 2007
Publication date	Apr 21, 2015
Grant date	Apr 21, 2015

Abstract

A method, device, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the method includes receiving measured health information from a client on a key distribution server. Once the measured health information is received the server is capable of validating the measured health information to see if it is authentic. The server is also capable of sending a session key to the client when the measured health information is validated. When the client receives the session key, the client is capable of initiating an encrypted and authenticated connection with an application server in the domain using the session key.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A key distribution server to generate a session key to secure communications with an application server, the key distribution server comprising:
key distribution server hardware logic to:
determine a first group of application servers of a plurality of application servers to be accessible to a client device;
receive health information generated by a client device requesting access to an application server of the plurality of application servers, th…

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Kolar Sundar Divya Naidu
• Dewan Prashant
• Long Men

Classifications

• H04L63/20

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• H04L63/062

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• H04L63/0428 Primary

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• H04L9/083 Primary

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• H04L63/0435 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic