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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
May. 07, 2008
Michael W. Green, Shoreview, MN (US);
David Diehl, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Michael J. Karels, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Michael W. Green, Shoreview, MN (US);
David Diehl, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Michael J. Karels, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A proxy device such as a firewall uses an internal socket namespace such as a text string such that connection requests must be explicitly redirected to a listening socket in the alternate namespace in order to connect to a service. Because external connections cannot directly address the listening socket or service, greater security is provided than with traditional firewall or proxy devices. To receive a redirected proxy connection, a service process creates a listening socket and binds a name in an alternate namespace to the socket before listening for connections.