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Britta Hale

A method and system for cryptographically securing communication systems between a plurality of communication devices includes manually providing a pre-shared encryption and/or authentication key via one or more key loader devices to the communication devices; deriving a PKI based protocol derived symmetric encryption and/or authentication key; processing the pre-shared encryption and/or authentication key and the PKI based protocol derived symmetric encryption and/or authentication key to generate a combined encryption and/or authentication key; and using the combined encryption and/or authentication key to encrypt and/or authenticate communications between the plurality of communication devices.

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Britta Hale