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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2004
Robert T. Bell, Bountiful, UT (US);
Graham G. Gudgin, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert T. Bell, Bountiful, UT (US);
Graham G. Gudgin, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is provided that includes a dedicated appliance operable to interface with a computing platform. A provisioning process may be initiated such that the dedicated appliance responds by monitoring a port for a connection request from the computing platform. Upon receiving the connection request the dedicated appliance completing a connection and generates a random numeric or an alphanumeric string, the dedicated appliance calculating a key derived from the random numeric string or the alphanumeric string using a key derivation process. The dedicated appliance waits for the credential packet from the computing platform before establishing a secure connection between the dedicated appliance and the computing platform.