Patents by Inventor Torsten FOERDER

Torsten FOERDER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and assembly for establishing a secure communication between a first network device (initiator) and a second network device (responder)
    Patent number: 10938555
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for establishing a secure communication between a first network device (initiator) and a second network device (responder) in a communication network and to an arrangement of network device suitable for this purpose, which are distinguished by using a symmetric cryptosystem in which both network devices each use the same secrets as keys for encrypting and decrypting data sets for performing a respective separate authentication with respect to the first and second network devices before generating a secret to be used as a shared key for the secure communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Torsten Foerder
  • METHOD AND ASSEMBLY FOR ESTABLISHING A SECURE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A FIRST NETWORK DEVICE (INITIATOR) AND A SECOND NETWORK DEVICE (RESPONDER)
    Publication number: 20190132122
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for establishing a secure communication between a first network device (initiator) and a second network device (responder) in a communication network and to an arrangement of network device suitable for this purpose, which are distinguished by using a symmetric cryptosystem in which both network devices each use the same secrets as keys for encrypting and decrypting data sets for performing a respective separate authentication with respect to the first and second network devices before generating a secret to be used as a shared key for the secure communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Torsten FOERDER