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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:
Sep. 08, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2018
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);

Inventors:

Joshua Serratelli Schiffman, Bristol, GB;

Gurchetan Grewal, Bristol, GB;

Thalia Laing, Bristol, GB;

Boris Balacheff, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/062 (2013.01); H04L 9/085 (2013.01); H04L 9/0861 (2013.01); H04L 9/0891 (2013.01); H04L 9/3255 (2013.01); H04L 9/3271 (2013.01); H04L 63/0853 (2013.01); H04L 63/104 (2013.01);
Abstract

Examples associated with distributed authentication are described. One example includes generating a paired public key and private key associated with a user. The private key is split into a set of shares, which are distributed to a set of devices associated with the user. A challenge is generated to authenticate the user to grant the user access to a resource upon receiving an authenticating response to the challenge. The challenge is distributed to members of the set of devices. Partial responses are received from members of the set of devices and combined into a group signature. The group signature serves as an authenticating response to the challenge when generated from partial responses received from a threshold number of members of the set of devices.


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