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Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2014
Applicants:

Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Certicom Corp., Mississauga, CA;

Inventors:

Avinash Chidambaram, Mississauga, CA;

Matthew John Campagna, Ridgefield, CT (US);

Assignees:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Certicom Corp., Mississauga, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0863 (2013.01); H04L 9/0841 (2013.01); H04L 9/32 (2013.01); H04L 9/3252 (2013.01); H04L 9/3297 (2013.01); H04L 2209/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of securing user credentials in a remote repository is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising generating a first private key and a first public key pair from a registered password; generating a second private key and a second public key pair; generating a storage key from the second private key and the first public key; encrypting a set of credentials using the storage key; creating a encrypted credential signature from the encrypted set of credentials and the first private key; and storing the encrypted set of credentials, the encrypted credential signature, and the second public key in the remote repository.


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