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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sekar Chandersekaran, Potomac, MD (US);
Narayanan Vasudevan, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Sohail Malik, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Michael Muresan, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 ;
Abstract
A method, system, and computer program are disclosed to transport an encrypted key across multiple, diverse systems which provides the relevant and necessary information to guarantee a successful decryption of the key. The method prepares an ASN.1 encoding file at the sender which contains the key. The receiver performs the method to decode the ASN.1 encoded file. In this manner, only the data and the contents of the portable key need to be sent to guarantee successful decryption at the receiver.