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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2017
Telefonica, S.a., Madrid, ES;
Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez, Madrid, ES;
Diego R. Lopez, Madrid, ES;
Norisy C. Orea Barrios, Madrid, ES;
Telefonica, S.A., Madrid, ES;
Abstract
The method comprising, in a network based on a chain of individual Service Functions, SFs, that are composed to implement Network Services, NSs: assigning, at an ingress node of a network architecture, to at least one data packet received by said ingress node from the network, a unique cryptographic tag; processing said assigned unique cryptographic tag using a cryptographic function specific to each Service Function, SF; and verifying, at a given point of the network architecture, said processed unique cryptographic tag by applying a cryptographic verification function composed by the inverse functions of the cryptographic functions associated to the SFs traversed by the at least one data packet.