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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2022
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Brent R. Bilger, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Rajesh M. Patel, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shailesh K. Venugopal, Gilroy, CA (US);
William F. Copeland, Garland, TX (US);
Michel J. Basmaji, San Jose, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is to execute the instruction to: receive, from a user device, a username of a user and a string; retrieve a first Message Authentication Code (MAC) and a salt from a database in response to receiving the username and the string; send the first MAC, the salt, and one or more parameters to a Hardware Security Module (HSM); receive, from the HSM, a message indicating whether the first MAC matches a second MAC that the HSM generates based on the one or more parameters and the salt. In addition, the processor to perform one of: authenticate the user when the message indicates that the first MAC matches the second MAC; or not authenticate the user when the message indicates that the first MAC does not match the second MAC.