Method, a system and computer program products for securely enabling in-network functionality over encrypted data sessions

Abstract

A method, a system and computer program products for securely enabling in-network functionality over encrypted data sessions, the method involving establishing an encrypted data session between a client communication application () and a server communication application () over a communication network; receiving and/or transmitting, by the client communication application (), in the established encrypted data session, at least one encrypted communication data (D) from/to the server communication application () through a computing network element (M); and performing, by the computing network element (M), different actions other than data packet forwarding from one communication application to the other on the encrypted communication data (D). The encrypted communication data (D) has a plurality of data portions, or contexts, (CTX), each encrypted by a context key, and the different actions being specific for the computing network element (M) and for one or more of the contexts (CTX_X).