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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2008
Applicant:
Ravi Ganesan, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ravi Ganesan, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Assignee:
Safemashups Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method that allows three parties to mutually authenticate each other and share an encrypted channel. The invention is based on a novel twist to the widely used two party transport level SSL protocol. One party, typically a user at a browser, acts as a man in the middle between the other two parties, typically two web servers with regular SSL credentials. The two web servers establish a standard mutually authenticated SSL connection via the user's browser, using a novel variation of the SSL handshake that guarantees that a legitimate user is in the middle.