Safenet, Inc.

Brian Grove

Laszlo Elteto

Reed Tibbetts

James Khalaf

Mehdi Sotoodeh

A method and apparatus for secure authentication of a hardware token is disclosed. In one embodiment, a host computer fingerprint is used to generate a partial seed for a challenge-response authentication which is performed on the hardware token. In another embodiment, the host computer fingerprint is used as a personal identification number for the hardware token.

Secure authentication using hardware token and computer fingerprint

A system and method in which the operating system of the user computer loads the software application and a DLL having a portion of the application execution code stored therein into memory is disclosed. At selected points during its execution, the software application calls the DLL to execute a portion of the application code that was saved into the DLL before delivery to the end user. Since this code is encrypted and the encryption key is stored in a hardware security device and not in the DLL or the software application, the application code portion cannot be executed without recovering the key.

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Belcamp, MD, United States of America

Brian Grove