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Password helper using a client-side master password which automatically presents the appropriate server-side password in a particular remote server

  • US 6,182,229 B1
  • Filed: 11/30/1999
  • Issued: 01/30/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a network including a client system and a group of at least one remote server, a method for authenticating a user operating said client system to said group of remote servers comprising the steps of:

  • storing a plurality of entries corresponding to each remote server of said group in a database, each said entry comprising a password of the user registered at the corresponding remote server, said password being encrypted using a master password;

    receiving, at said client systems, an authentication request message from a first selected remote server of said group;

    inhibiting said client system from displaying an authentication form;

    prompting the user for said master password;

    searching said database for an entry corresponding to said authentication request message;

    decrypting, at said client system, said password registered at said first selected remoter server using the master password as a key; and

    sending, responsive to said authentication request message, said password form said client system to said first selected remote server.

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