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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 16, 2013
Applicant:

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;

Inventors:

Stefan Pyka, Markt Schwaben, DE;

Johannes Zwanzger, Neubiberg, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0838 (2013.01); H04L 9/0877 (2013.01); H04L 63/061 (2013.01); H04L 63/068 (2013.01); H04L 2209/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to a first network unit (See) which comprises a secure hardware component (HK) for saving and running software. A second network unit (P) comprises a secure software component (SK) for saving and running software. A method for secure communication comprises: saving a first common secret, a first algorithm and a second algorithm on the network units; sending a first date from the second network unit to the first network unit; running the first algorithm on the first network unit and on the second network unit wherein the input is in each case formed by the second common secret and the first date; sending of a second date from the first network unit to the second network unit; running the second algorithm on the first network unit and on the second network unit; wherein the input is formed in each case by the second common secret and the second date; and use of the third common secret for a secure communication.


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