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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2009
Scott B. Guthery, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Scott B. Guthery, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Assa Abloy AB, , SE;
Abstract
Methods, devices, and systems are provided for managing and controlling small footprint devices with a lightweight control protocol, such as SNMP. Relatively small control messages are employed that have a compact command portion included in an object identifier portion, thereby circumventing the need for a separate command portion as well as a data body. Also, methods, devices, and systems for improving the security and privacy of processing SNMP messages on SNMP-managed devices by moving this processing together with the sensitive data that the process employ such a cryptographic keys inside the tamper-resistant and tamper-evident boundary of an integrated circuit card.