Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Entit Software LLC

Michael Bernd Beiter

Karine Peralta

Matthew Messinger

Liqun Chen

Marco Casassa Mont

Siani Lynne Pearson

Randall Edward Grohs

Joern Schimmelpfeng

Timo Schneller

Shane I Saunders

Susan J Kordis

Carsten Laengerer

Jörn Schimmelpfeng

Examples disclosed herein describe authenticating a first electronic device based on a push message to a second electronic device. In one implementation, a processor receives a user identifier from a first electronic device. The processor may select a message communication type based on the user identifier and transmit an authentication information request to a second electronic device using a push message communication of the selected message communication type. The processor may authenticate the user based on the received response to the request and transmit information related to the user authentication to the first electronic device.

Authenticate a first device based on a push message to a second device

Examples relate to providing selective access to resources. In one example, a computing device may: receive, from a client application, a request to access a first resource server, the request including a client access token; identify a first set of permissions specified by a client topology, the client topology specifying: the first resource server; the first set of permissions for accessing, by the client application, the first resource server; a second resource server; and a second set of permissions for accessing, by the first resource server, the second resource server; provide the client application with a first access token specifying the first set of permissions and the first resource server; receive, from the first resource server, a request to access the second resource server, the request including the first access token; and provide the first resource server with a second access token specifying the second set of permissions.

Providing selective access to resources

In response to a request of a first user, identity information for users is searched to retrieve a portion of the identity information corresponding to the first user. The identity information including fields, where a first subset of the fields is schemaless, and a second subset of the fields is interpreted according to a specified schema. Searching the identity information includes searching the first subset and the second subset of fields. An action for the request is authorized by using information included in at least one field of the first subset included in the retrieved portion of the identity information.

Identity information including a schemaless portion

In an example, an active authentication session may b transferred from a first device to a second device. An authentication server may store a new authentication session token for the second device in session storage. The new authentication session token may be derived from an active authentication session token that was received from the first device. The authentication server may also receive an identification value from the first device, which was obtained from the second device, in response to verifying a query by the second device regarding an existence of a locator key based on the identification value in the session storage, the new authentication session token may be transmitted to the second device.

Active authentication session transfer

According to an example, to authenticate a user of a computing device, a user login request with at least one primary credential is received from a computing device. At least one primary credential is validated to authenticate the user, and a first device token is created and transmitted to the computing device. A secondary credential is received from the computing device, and a server token and a reference to the server token is created. The server token is encrypted and stored and the server token reference is sent to computing device for use in a subsequent authentication with the secondary credential.

User authentication

Sending encrypted data to a service provider includes exchanging an encryption key between an entity and a service provider without retaining the encryption key and while hiding an identity of said entity from the service provider and forwarding encrypted data based on the encryption key to the service provider from the entity while hiding the identity of the entity from the service provider.

Sending encrypted data to a service provider

Groups of a plurality of tenants are mapped to identity management classes corresponding to respective roles that grant respective permissions. The identity management classes are associated with hierarchical delegation information that specify delegation rights among the identity management classes, the delegation rights specifying rights of members of the respective identity management classes to perform delegation with respect to further members of the identity management classes. In response to a request by a first member of a first of the identity management classes to perform delegation with respect to a second member of one of the identity management classes, it is determined, based on the hierarchical delegation information, whether the first member is allowed to perform the delegation with respect to the second member.

Mapping tenat groups to identity management classes

A first representation is provided of privileges among a plurality of tenants of a system. The tenants have relationships according to a hierarchy that includes multiple hierarchical levels of the tenants, where at least one of the privileges specifies a permission of a first tenant to perform a task with respect to a second tenant. The first representation is independent of a representation of the relationships among the plurality of tenants. In response to a request from the first tenant to perform a task with respect to the second tenant, a system determines, based on the first representation, whether the first tenant is permitted to perform the task with respect to the second tenant.

Determining a permission of a first tenant with respect to a second tenant

An example method for managing data in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes receiving from a user in the computer network environment a policy about how a piece of data should be treated, an encryption of the piece of data, a signature of a cryptographic hash of the policy and a cryptographic key, requesting from a trust authority the cryptographic key to access the piece of data, transmitting an encryption of at least one share to the trust authority, wherein the at least one share is created by and received from the trust authority, receiving from the trust authority the cryptographic key, wherein the cryptographic key is recreated by a combiner using a subset of the at least one share, shares associated with the trust authority and shares associated with the combiner, and decrypting the encryption of the piece of data using the recreated cryptographic key.

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Michael Bernd Beiter