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Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 26, 2018
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Syed Khalid Raza, Fremont, CA (US);

Praveen Raju Kariyanahalli, San Ramon, CA (US);

Rameshbabu Prabagaran, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Amir Khan, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0825 (2013.01); H04L 9/0816 (2013.01); H04L 63/062 (2013.01); H04L 63/065 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for securing communications for a given network topology is provided. The method comprises generating by a node N(i) of the network, security parameters for the node N(i); transmitting by the node N(i), said security parameters to a controller for the network; maintaining by the controller said security parameters for the node N(i); receiving by the controller a request from a node N(j) for the security parameters for the node N(i); retrieving by the controller the security parameters for the node N(i); and transmitting by the controller said security parameters to the node N(j).


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