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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2001
Applicant:
James Riordan, Adliswil, CH;
Inventor:
James Riordan, Adliswil, CH;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides a mechanism for a secure password entry by using cryptographic functions. This mechanism is applicable to the access of computers and programs. Upon a request of a program E a password p is read-in by receiving a program-specific identifier H(E) from the program E, receiving the password p, and generating from at least the program-specific identifier H(E) and the received password p a program-password-specific identifier F(H(E),p). The program-password-specific identifier F(H(E),p) is sent to the program E which then further processes the program-password-specific identifier F(H(E),p).