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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2020
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Devendra Kumar Vishwakarma, North Chelmsford, MA (US);
Om Prakash Suthar, Bolingbrook, IL (US);
Vivek Agarwal, Chelmsford, MA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Presented herein are certificate-based techniques through which a Radio Interface Unit may be securely onboarded to a service provider network. In one example, a method is provided that includes obtaining, by a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server, an address assignment request for the, wherein the address assignment request comprises a vendor device certificate, a signed nonce, a non-encrypted serial number for the RIU, a signed serial number for the RIU, and a vendor identifier; validating the vendor device certificate, the signed nonce, and the signed serial number for the RIU based on a vendor root certification authority certificate; validating the non-encrypted serial number for the RIU; and generating an address assignment response based on validating the non-encrypted serial number for the RIU, the vendor device certificate, the signed nonce, and the signed serial number for the RIU.