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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:
Oct. 26, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 08, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Luis Angel D. Bathen, Placentia, CA (US);

Dulce B. Ponceleon, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Marc H. Coq, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Colette Manoni, Brewster, NY (US);

Collin Walling, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Corey McQuay, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Eugene E. Nitka, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Trent Balta, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 9/0833 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2013.01); H04L 9/3073 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example operation may include one or more of identifying a group of blockchain member devices attempting to establish a trusted group communication channel, assigning each of the blockchain member devices public/private key pairs, publishing the public keys of the blockchain member devices in a list, identifying a request from a first blockchain member device requesting a private key, associated with a second blockchain member device, be applied to a predetermined nonce value, responsive to identifying a response to the request, verifying, via a public key assigned to the first blockchain member device, that the second blockchain member device is a trusted member of the group of blockchain member devices, and responsive to verifying the second blockchain member device is a trusted member of the group of blockchain member devices, permitting communication between the first blockchain member device and the second blockchain member device on the trusted group communication channel.


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