Red Hat, Inc.

Emc Corporation

Dmitri Pal

Stephen John Gallagher

William Duane

Michael Hingston McLaughlin Bursell

Karl Ackerman

Ronald L Rivest

Andrew Nanopoulos

Piers Bowness

Simo Sorce

Daniel P Berrange

Shane D Rice

John Ross Dennis

Sumit Bose

Markus Jakobsson

Burt Kaliski

Rob Crittenden

A method includes receiving, from a client device, a request to initiate an action on a target system. The method further includes determining, in view of a container registry, that the action is permissive. The method further includes receiving an authorized container corresponding to the action. The method further includes performing, by a processing device, the action in view of the container.

Containers on demand

The technology disclosed herein enables a processor to receive, at a distribution unit, a first content request from a distribution electronic control unit (ECU) associated with a vehicle, wherein the first content request reflects one or more filtering criteria, determine whether a content item that satisfies the filtering criteria is stored on a storage device of the distribution unit, responsive to determining that the content item that satisfies the filtering criteria is not stored on the storage device of the distribution unit: send, to a managed content delivery service, a second content request, wherein the second content request includes the filtering criteria, and receive, from the managed content delivery service, the content item that satisfies the filtering criteria, and send the content item that satisfies the filtering criteria to the distribution ECU associated with the vehicle.

Distribution of digital content to vehicles

The technology disclosed herein enables a computing device to use a trusted execution environment in an untrusted device to distribute executable image data (e.g., network bootable image) to a set of one or more computing devices. An example method may include: establishing, by a processor, the trusted execution environment in a first computing device, wherein the trusted execution environment comprises an encrypted memory area; loading executable code into the trusted execution environment, wherein the executable code controls access to protected content and wherein the protected content comprises executable image data; and causing the executable code to execute in the trusted execution environment to analyze data of a second computing device and to provide the second computing device access to the protected content.

Using a trusted execution environment to enable network booting

A method for user authentication for accessing protected applications by computing devices includes receiving, by a processor of a mobile computing device, a first authentication token. The method further includes transmitting an authentication request using the first authentication token. The method further includes receiving, in response to the authentication request, a second authentication token. The method further includes transmitting a resource access token request using the second authentication token. The method further includes receiving, in response to the resource access token request, a resource access token. The method further includes transmitting a computing resource access request using the resource access token.

Mobile device user authentication for accessing protected network resources

A method including determining, by a processing device, whether a computer system is able to access an authentication server, in response to determining that the computer system is able to access the authentication server, requesting a first set of credentials, authenticating the first set of credentials, assigning a user a first role for performing operations on the computer system in view of the first set of credentials, and in response to determining that the computer system is unable to access the authentication server, requesting a second set of credentials different from the first set of credentials, authenticating one or more credentials provided by the user, and assigning the user a second role for performing operations on the computer system in view of the one or more credentials, wherein the first role specifies a first type of access to at least one object on the computer system, and the second role specifies a second type of access to the at least one object, wherein the first type of access is different from the second type of access.

Offline authentication

A user credential comprising a user password and a one-time password (OTP) may be provided to access a computing system. The user password is authenticated and the network connection status of the computing system is determined. If the computing system is offline, the user password and the OTP are stored in memory and the user is granted a first level of access to the computing system. Upon detecting that the network connection status of the computing system has changed to online, the user password and the OTP are provided to an authentication server for authentication. If the authentication of the user password and the OTP is successful, the user is granted a second level of access to the computing system, the second level of access being higher than the first level of access.

Password authentication

Systems and methods for strong user authentication for accessing protected networks. An example method may include: transmitting, by a processing device, an authentication request to an authentication server; receiving an access granting token from the authentication server; transmitting, to a nonce server, a nonce request using the access granting token; receiving a cryptographic nonce from the nonce server; and transmitting, to a virtual private network (VPN) server, a VPN connection request using the cryptographic nonce.

Strong user authentication for accessing protected network

Storing a key to an encrypted file in a kernel memory is disclosed. Authentication data may be received and authentication credentials of the authentication data may be stored in a file. The file may be encrypted and a key to the encrypted file may be generated. The encrypted file may be stored in a user space and the key may be stored in a kernel space. The key may be retrieved from the kernel space and applied to the encrypted file in the user space to decode the encrypted file and subsequently access the authentication credentials stored in the encrypted file.

Storing a key to an encrypted file in kernel memory

Systems and methods for strong user authentication for accessing protected applications by mobile computing devices. An example method may comprise: receiving, by a mobile computing device, a cryptographic nonce via a first communication interface; transmitting, via a second communication interface, an authentication request using the cryptographic nonce, to an authentication server via an HTTP proxy server; receiving a resource access token from the authentication server; and transmitting a computing resource access request using the resource access token.

A method and apparatus for integrating Sudo rules into a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) repository. An LDAP directory server receives a request to add a sudo rule to the LDAP repository. The sudo rule defines at least one sudo command and one or more entities associated with the execution of the sudo command. The LDAP directory server creates an LDAP entry for the sudo rule, and links in the LDAP entry of the sudo rule an LDAP entry of the sudo command and LDAP entries of the entities associated with the execution of the sudo command.

Integrating sudo rules with entities represented in an LDAP directory

An event logging interface on a computer system is used to record an event when an application hosted by the computer system encounters the event. The event logging interface receives data pertaining to an event from the application. Using the event logging interface, the computer system determines a logical target of the event, and determines one or more physical destinations referenced by the logical target. The data is then dispatched to one of the physical destinations.

Event logging application programming interface (API)

In a system for disconnected authentication, verification records corresponding to given authentication token outputs over a predetermined period of time, sequence of events, and/or set of challenges are downloaded to a verifier. The records include encrypted or hashed information for the given authentication token outputs. In one embodiment using time intervals, for each time interval, token output data, a salt value, and a pepper value, are hashed and compared with the verification record for the time interval. After a successful comparison, a user can access the computer. A PIN value can also be provided as an input the hash function. A portion of the hash function output can be used as a key to decrypt an encrypted (Windows) password, or other sensitive information.

System and method providing disconnected authentication

In one embodiment, a mechanism for providing a trusted environment for provisioning a virtual machine is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes beginning an initialization process of a virtual machine (VM) hosted by a VM host server, obtaining by the VM as part of the initialization process a one-time password from the VM host server, the one-time password provided to the VM host server from a management server that created the one-time password, and authenticating the VM with an identity server using the one-time password.

Providing a trusted environment for provisioning a virtual machine

A computer system determines whether the computer system is able to access an authentication server. If the computer system is able to access the authentication server, the computer system requesting a first set of credentials from a user. If the first set of credentials is valid, the computer system assigns the user a first role for performing operations on the computer system based on the first set of credentials. If the computer system is unable to access the authentication server, the computer system requests another set of credentials from the user. If the other set of credentials is valid, the computer system assigns the user another role for performing operations on the computer system based on the other set of credentials.

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