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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2006
Applicants:
Sathya Narayanan, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Eunsoo Shim, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Sathya Narayanan, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Eunsoo Shim, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of authentication of peers of a peer-to-peer network includes a certificate issuer tracking at most a predetermined number of node IDs for each peer on the peer-to-peer network, a requesting peer requesting from the certificate issuer a certificate for authenticating a communicating peer and each certificate issued listing at least one node ID of the predetermined number of node IDs assigned for the communicating peer.