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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Daniel T Ferguson, Orem, UT (US);
Assignee:
Novell, Inc., Orem, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713201 ; 713202 ; 380-3 ; 380-4 ;
Abstract
A system for transmitting secured data is disclosed. A plurality of interconnected nodes access a distributed directory having a plurality of objects and attributes. An access control mechanism controls access to the distributed directory. An encryption system and a decryption system are used to encrypt and decrypt secret data. The resulting encrypted data is associated with an attribute of an object, whereby access to the secret data is permitted if (i) the access control mechanism permits access to the attribute, and (ii) decryption information is presented to the decryption system to decrypt the secret data.