Abstract: A method of providing secure communications over a network includes receiving, at a receiving computer, a public key of a sending computer, and a hash of a sending random number over a first communication channel, transmitting, from the receiving computer, a public key of the receiving computer and a receiving random number provided by the receiving computer over the first communication channel, and receiving, at the receiving computer, the sending random number provided by the sending computer over the first communication channel.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 15, 2007
Publication date:
September 18, 2008
Applicant:
PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED AND SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
Inventors:
Dirk Balfanz, Phillipe J. Golle, Diana K. Smetters, Glenn E. Durfee