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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2006
Joel Balissat, La Gaude, FR;
Claude Galand, Saint-Paul, FR;
Jean-francois Le Pennec, Nice, FR;
Jean-marie Sommerlatt, Cagnes sur Mer, FR;
Joel Balissat, La Gaude, FR;
Claude Galand, Saint-Paul, FR;
Jean-Francois Le Pennec, Nice, FR;
Jean-Marie Sommerlatt, Cagnes sur Mer, FR;
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Bedminster, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and system for implementing secure network communications between a first device and a second device, at least one of the devices communicating with the other device via a firewall device, are provided. The method and system may include obtaining an encryption parameter that is shared by the first device, second device and firewall device. A data packet sent by the first device may then be copied within the firewall device, so that decryption of the copy of the data packet within a portion of the firewall device may take place. In particular, the portion of the firewall device in which decryption takes place is defined such that contents of the portion are inaccessible to an operator of the firewall device. Thus, scanning of the decrypted copy of the data packet for compliance with a predetermined criterion may take place within the firewall device, without an operator of the firewall device having access to the contents of the data packet to be transmitted. Thereafter, the original data packet can be forwarded to its originally intended recipient.