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Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 28, 2014
Applicant:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Ludovic Emmanuel Paul Noel Jacquin, Bristol, GB;

Adrian Shaw, Bristol, GB;

Chris I. Dalton, Bristol, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0866 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 41/28 (2013.01); H04L 43/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computing device having instructions that when executed by a processor may: receive, from a verifier, a request for attestation of a current network configuration of the computing device; identify network configuration rules, each network configuration rule specifying an action to be taken by the computing device in response to receiving a particular type of network traffic; generate, for each network configuration rule, a rule abstraction that represents the network configuration rule; provide data representing each rule abstraction to a trusted component; receive, from the trusted component, response data comprising i) data representing each rule abstraction, and ii) a digital signature; and provide the response data to the verifier as attestation proof of the current network configuration of the computing device.


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