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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. 17, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 10, 2017
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Karl Norrman, Stockholm, SE;

Elena Dubrova, Sollentuna, SE;

Bernard Smeets, Dalby, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 7/58 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 12/12 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3278 (2013.01); G06F 7/588 (2013.01); H04L 9/0866 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 12/12 (2013.01); H04L 2209/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of verifying that a first device and a second device are physically interconnected is disclosed. The method is performed by a verifier and includes sending a challenge Rto the first device, for use as basis for input to a first physical unclonable function, PUF, —part of the first device, receiving, a response, RES, from the second device, the response RESbeing based on an output of a second PUF part of the second device, and verifying that the first device and the second device are interconnected for the case that the received response, RES, and an expected response fulfills a matching criterion. A method in a first device and a method in a second device and corresponding devices, computer programs and computer program products are also disclosed.


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