Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Establishing trust between two devices
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Application No.: US15629468Application Date: 2017-06-21
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Publication No.: US10581848B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Peter Dawoud Shenouda Dawoud , Anoosh Saboori , Himanshu Soni , Dustin Michael Ingalls , Nelly L. Porter
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Newport IP, LLC
- Agent Jacob P. Rohwer
- Main IPC: G06F21/33
- IPC: G06F21/33 ; G06F21/45 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L9/08 ; H04L9/32 ; H04L9/12

Abstract:
Techniques described herein leverage a trusted entity within a domain to enable devices to establish trust with one another so they can securely discover each other and connect to one another. In various examples discussed herein, a device is configured to provide trust information to, and/or receive trust information from, the trusted entity. The trust information may include, for example, a public key of an encryption key pair, a certificate signed by the trusted entity proving authenticity, and/or a hash function and a hash seed used to compute a series of results that form a hash chain. The device may use the trust information to discover another device and to connect to the other device securely and automatically (e.g., with no user involvement or limited user involvement). Moreover, the device may use the trust information to dynamically change a MAC address being used to communicate with the other device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170302666A1 ESTABLISHING TRUST BETWEEN TWO DEVICES Public/Granted day:2017-10-19
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