Avaya Inc.

Sanket Ravindra Tandulwadkar

Sunil Menon

Seung Bong Han

Carl Keene

Wu Miao

Generating PKI credentials for authenticating a networking appliance attempting to attach to a network includes: receiving a certificate signing request (CSR) from the networking appliance, wherein the CSR comprises credential data associated with an identity of the networking appliance; generating an appliance certificate based on the credential data and a certificate authority (CA) certificate associated with the computer; and returning the appliance certificate to the networking appliance.

Public key infrastructure exchange using netconf for Openflow enabled switches

Authenticating a networking appliance attempting to attach to a network includes receiving a request from the networking appliance to attach to the network, wherein the request comprises credential data associated with the networking appliance and a certificate authority (CA) certificate associated with the computer; receiving at least one value associated with an identity of the networking appliance; and authenticating the identity of the networking appliance based on both a) the at least one value associated with the identity of the networking appliance; and b) the appliance certificate.

Certificate-based dual authentication for openflow enabled switches

Authenticating a networking appliance attempting to attach to a network includes receiving at least one value associated with an identity of the networking appliance; receiving a certificate signing request (CSR) from the networking appliance, wherein the CSR comprises credential data associated with the identity of the networking appliance; and generating an appliance certificate based on the credential data and a certificate authority (CA) certificate associated with the computer. The method also includes returning the appliance certificate to the networking appliance; receiving a request from the networking appliance to attach to the network; and authenticating the identity of the networking appliance based on both a) the at least one value associated with the identity of the networking appliance; and b) the appliance certificate.

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