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Secure Communication Using Asymmetric Cryptography and Light-Weight Certificates

  • US 20110022835A1
  • Filed: 07/27/2010
  • Published: 01/27/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2009
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for facilitating secure data communication from a server to a client device of an individual using a data communications channel, the system comprising:

  • a database that stores a plurality of encryption keys in a storage arrangement, wherein at least one stored encryption key is uniquely and privately associated with the individual;

    a processor, in data communication with the database, configured(i) to receive a message, created by the server in response to a request by a client device purporting to be that of the individual,(ii) to retrieve from the database the encryption key that is uniquely and privately associated with the individual, and(iii) to encrypt the message using the retrieved encryption key to form an encrypted message that only the client device of the individual is capable of decrypting; and

    a communications gateway, in data communication with the data communications channel, the processor, and the server, the gateway configured(i) to transmit, to the server, messages that are received from the data communications channel for delivery to the server,(ii) to transmit, to the processor, the message created by the server in response to the request by the client device purporting to be that of the individual, and(iii) to transmit the encrypted message to the data communications channel for delivery to the client device purporting to be that of the individual.

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