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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Techniques described herein relate to a method for establishing communication sessions. The method may include sending, by a first data node, a request to establish a session to a second data node, wherein the request is encrypted using a compound certificate associated with a data cluster; obtaining, an encrypted token from the second data node; verifying the encrypted token using the compound certificate; performing steward selection to select a third data node to be a steward; generating a unique key and providing a copy of the unique key to the steward; generating an encrypted authentication token using the unique key; sending the encrypted authentication token to the steward; obtaining an authentication token from the second data node, wherein the authentication token is decrypted; verifying the authentication token using the encrypted authentication token; and performing remaining communications associated with the session using the steward.