Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Kaushik Datta

Craig Joseph Mills

Sankarlingam Dandabany

Authenticating applications to a network service includes authenticating an application with a certificate to access a service provider over a logical connection between the application and the service provider and confirming that the application is using an authorized port of the service provider.

Authenticating applications to a network service

Systems and methods for provisioning and managing of certificates in a network are described. In one implementation, a signing certificate is generated by a network device based on a root certificate of the network device. Based on the signing certificate of the network device, a client-device certificate is signed for a client device. The signed client-device certificate is provided to the client device for allowing the client device to access a secure service provided by the network device.

Provisioning and managing certificates for accessing secure services in network

A certificate grant list is provided. The certificate grant list may be stored in a memory, at the network device. The certificate grant list may store information associated with a client-device certificate, where the client-device certificate permits the client-device access to a secure service.

Certificate grant list at network device

A network-based application can establish a secure network connection to a switch. A unique identifier (UID) is generated for the network-based application, and a secure authentication request is generated from the network-based application. The UID for the network-based application is embedded in the secure authentication request. The secure authentication request is communicated to the switch. A response to the secure authentication request is received from the switch. One or more operations are performed that utilize the UID to establish a secure communication channel between the network-based application and the switch.

Securely establishing a communication channel between a switch and a network-based application using a unique identifier for the network-based application

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Kaushik Datta