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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2005
Douglas H. Bellows, Evanston, IL (US);
Alexandro Salvarani, Edison, NJ (US);
Eric Henry Grosse, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Mark H. Kraml, Flanders, NJ (US);
Douglas H. Bellows, Evanston, IL (US);
Alexandro Salvarani, Edison, NJ (US);
Eric Henry Grosse, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Mark H. Kraml, Flanders, NJ (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system for managing security keys in a wireless network includes a manufacturer certification authority (MCA) for providing a signed digital MCA certificate for installation into a new network element (NE) at the manufacturer's facility prior to the new NE being installed and initialized in the network. The MCA also provides a source of trusted authority for authenticating legacy NEs in the network. The system includes a service provider certification authority for managing certificates and files used by the NEs to communicate securely within the network, a signing server for providing signing services to NEs for authentication, an element manager for providing security key and digital certificate management, and a management agent (MA) for providing proxy functionality of the EM security key services to NEs not directly connected to the EM.