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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2014
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Certicom Corp., Mississauga, CA;
Avinash Chidambaram, Mississauga, CA;
Matthew John Campagna, Ridgefield, CT (US);
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Certicom Corp., Mississauga, CA;
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.