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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Alan James Chatt, Salisbury, GB;
Christopher Colin Paice, Chandler's Ford, GB;
Cyril Peter Stewart, Chandler's Ford, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method provides cross enterprise communication in which intermediary communication components carry out cross enterprise communication. The method at a first sending enterprise includes: receiving a signed encrypted message from a sender within a first enterprise; validating the sender; decrypting the message; encrypting the message for receipt by a second enterprise; signing the encrypted message by the first enterprise; and sending the re-signed re-encrypted message to a second enterprise. The method at the second receiving enterprise includes: receiving a signed encrypted message from a first enterprise; validating that the first enterprise is the sender; decrypting the message; encrypting the message for receipt by one or more recipients at the second enterprise; signing the encrypted message by the second enterprise indicating that the message is from the first enterprise; and sending the re-signed re-encrypted message to the one or more recipients of the second enterprise.