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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2004
Applicants:
Trevor W. Freeman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Tim Moore, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bernard Aboba, Bellevue, WA (US);
Inventors:
Trevor W. Freeman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Tim Moore, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bernard Aboba, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/30 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G11C 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Generating symmetric keys among distributed appliances, includes generating public and private values on at least one appliance, importing a public value from another appliance via an out-of-band entity, and generating a secret value as a function of the private value corresponding to the local appliance and the public value received from the other appliance.