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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1999
Neil Beesley, Issaquah, WA (US);
Dietmar Gaertner, Ober-Ramstadt, DE;
James Holme, Bickenbach, DE;
Terence Kennedy, Darmstadt, DE;
Dieter Kessler, Weiterstadt, DE;
Thomas Vogler, Darmstadt, DE;
Neil Beesley, Issaquah, WA (US);
Dietmar Gaertner, Ober-Ramstadt, DE;
James Holme, Bickenbach, DE;
Terence Kennedy, Darmstadt, DE;
Dieter Kessler, Weiterstadt, DE;
Thomas Vogler, Darmstadt, DE;
Software AG, Darmstadt, DE;
Abstract
A trusted agent for enabling the check of the access of a user operating a first computer system controlled by a first security system to software and/or data on a second computer system controlled by a second security system. The trusted agent includes several functions, including: (a) reception of a user-id for the second computer system and transmission of the user-id to the second security system; (b) retrieval of a shared secret, which is registered in the fist security system and in the second security system, from the second security system; and (3) transmission of the shared secret from the trusted agent to the second computer system.