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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
May. 01, 2018
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Satish Kondalam, Milpitas, CA (US);
Victor M. Moreno, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Sanjay Kumar Hooda, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Muhammad Ahmad Imam, Milpitas, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with various implementations, a method is performed at a source node of a fabric network coupled to a plurality of hosts respectively associated with a plurality of group identifiers. The method includes generating a source public key based on a source private key, a source group identifier of the plurality of group identifiers, and a destination group identifier of the plurality of group identifiers. The method includes sending, from the source node coupled to at least one host associated with the source group identifier to a destination node coupled to at least one host associated with the destination group identifier, the source public key. The method includes receiving, at the source node from the destination node, a destination public key based on a destination private key, the source group identifier, and the destination group identifier. The method further includes generating a shared secret based on the destination public key and the source private key.