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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Arul Murugan Manickam, Mountain House, CA (US);
Basavaraju Halappa, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an illustrative method herein may comprise: receiving, at a device in a computer network, a packet having an unencrypted header and an encrypted segment list, wherein the device is an authorized segment hop device and wherein a destination address within the unencrypted header matches an address of the device; decrypting, by the device and in response to the destination address within the unencrypted header matching the address of the device, the encrypted segment list to expose at least a next segment hop address in the encrypted segment list; replacing, by the device, the destination address within the unencrypted header with the next segment hop address; and forwarding, from the device, the packet toward the next segment hop address along with the encrypted segment list.