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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2011
Mingliang Pei, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mingliang Pei, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for efficiently storing and activating credential seeds that are embedded in authentication devices. Device manufacturers provide copies of credential seeds embedded in the devices to an authentication service. The authentication service stores the credential seeds for authentication devices in a pre-active credential seed data store. When a credential seed is needed to perform a real-time or near real-time authentication of a One Time Password, the credential is fetched from the pre-active credential seed data store, used to authenticate the OTP and injected into the active credential seed data store, which can be a database. Thereafter, the credential seed is fetched from the active credential seed data store for real-time and near real-time authentication of OTPs. The credential seeds can be stored in the data stores with additional information, such as user profile data, permissions and authorizations, OTP authentication algorithm information, metadata, OTP moving factor data, time-to-live, and other attributes.