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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1997
David A. McGrew, Westminster, MD (US);
David W. Carman, Glenwood, MD (US);
Network Associates, Inc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a system and method for publicly verifying that a session key determined according to a Diffie-Hellman key exchange can be recovered from information associated with a communication encrypted with the session key. More particularly, the present invention provides recovery information and verification information with the encrypted communication. A recovery agent is able to recover the session key using the recovery information. A verifier, using the verification information, is able to verify that the session key can, in fact, be recovered from the recovery information. Neither the recovery information nor the verification information alone reveal any secret or private information. Furthermore, only the recovery agent is able to recover the session key, and he does so without revealing any other private information. Thus, the verification can be performed by any member of the public.