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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 01, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Thomas Fiege, Salinas, CA (US);

Michael P. Groover, Vail, AZ (US);

Mark E. Hack, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2013.01); H04L 9/0891 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2013.01); H04L 9/3247 (2013.01); H04L 9/3271 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for generating public/private key pairs to deploy public keys at computing devices to verify digital signatures. A plurality of public-private key pairs are generated to store in a key store. A set of public keys of the public-private key pairs is distributed to the computing systems to use to verify purported digitally signed challenges. One of the public-private key pairs is selected to use a private key of the selected one of the public-private key pairs as a current private key to use to digitally sign challenges from the computing systems. A determination is made to retire the current private key. Another one of the public-private key pairs is selected and the current private key is set to a private key of the selected another one of the public-private key pairs to use to digitally sign challenges from the computing systems.


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