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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2012
Rick L. Orsini, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Mark S. O'hare, Coto de Caza, CA (US);
Stephen C. Bono, Baltimore, MD (US);
Gabriel D. Landau, Baltimore, MD (US);
Seth James Nielson, Baltimore, MD (US);
Rick L. Orsini, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Mark S. O'Hare, Coto de Caza, CA (US);
Stephen C. Bono, Baltimore, MD (US);
Gabriel D. Landau, Baltimore, MD (US);
Seth James Nielson, Baltimore, MD (US);
Security First Corp., Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Abstract
Two approaches are provided for distributing trust among a set of certificate authorities. Each approach may be used to secure data in motion. One approach provides methods and systems in which the secure data parser is used to distribute trust in a set of certificate authorities during initial negotiation (e.g., the key establishment phase) of a connection between two devices. Another approach provides methods and systems in which the secure data parser is used to disperse packets of data into shares. A set of tunnels is established within a communication channel using a set of certificate authorities, keys developed during the establishment of the tunnels are used to encrypt shares of data for each of the tunnels, and the shares of data are transmitted through each of the tunnels. Accordingly, trust is distributed among a set of certificate authorities in the structure of the communication channel itself.