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Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010

Filed:

Jun. 19, 2007
Applicants:

Kai Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Linlong Jiang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kai Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Linlong Jiang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04K 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A secret string is established so as to be known only to a client computing system and a server computing system. A non-encrypted version of a message, a message counter value, and first hash value are received by the server computing system from the client computing system. The first hash value, based on a content of the message, the message counter value, and the secret string, is generated at the client computing system using a first hash algorithm. Using the first hash algorithm, the server generates second hash value based on the content of the received message, the received message counter value, and the secret string. The server computing system accepts the received non-encrypted version of the message as authentic upon determining that the received message counter value is greater than a previously received message counter value and that the second hash value matches the first hash value.


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