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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
May. 03, 2006
Raymond K. NG, San Jose, CA (US);
Ganesh Kirti, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas Keefe, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Naresh Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Raymond K. Ng, San Jose, CA (US);
Ganesh Kirti, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas Keefe, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Naresh Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates accessing a credential. During operation, the system receives a request at a credentials-storage framework (CSF) to retrieve the credential. If a target credential store containing the credential is not already connected to the CSF, the system looks up a bootstrap credential for the target credential store in a bootstrap credential store, which contains bootstrap credentials for other credential stores. Next, the system uses this bootstrap credential to connect the CSF to the target credential store. Finally, the system retrieves the credential from the target credential store, and returns the credential to the requestor.