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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2013
Michael B. Rash, Mount Airy, MD (US);
Damien S. Stuart, Edgewater, MD (US);
Michael B. Rash, Mount Airy, MD (US);
Damien S. Stuart, Edgewater, MD (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method for secure single-packet authorization and secure transparent access to software services residing on cloud-based servers other than the host system where the SPA server itself is running. A single packet authorization (SPA) server running on a host system passively monitors a network for a valid SPA packet while maintaining a default deny stance on a gateway packet filter. The SPA server stores the MD5 sum of every valid SPA packet that it monitors and flags any duplicate access attempts. This way, if any SPA packet has the same MD5 hash as a previously monitored packet the SPA server treats the packet as malicious. After a valid SPA packet is sent, the SPA host server provides a Network Address Translation (NAT) which essentially creates an 'SPA gateway' within a Cloud network independent of any other border gateway devices that already exist within the Cloud. The client system may then request access via the SPA gateway to services that are on other Cloud systems besides the one where the SPA server is running.