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Secure end-to-end notification

  • US 20030145229A1
  • Filed: 01/31/2002
  • Published: 07/31/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a network that includes at least one notification source and at least one notification sink, the network supporting a notification mechanism by which the notification source passes notifications to the notification sink via at least one message transit point, a method for securely passing a notification from the notification source to the notification sink using the notification mechanism while providing end-to-end security despite the existence of the at least one message transit point, the method comprising the following:

  • an act of negotiating security information between the notification source and the notification sink out of band from the notification mechanism;

    after the security information has been negotiated, an act of using the security information to generate a message that includes an encrypted form of the notification, as well as clear-text supplemental information that may be used to decrypt the notification using the security information; and

    an act of initiating transmission of the message to the notification sink via the at least one message transit point using the notification mechanism.

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