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Security protocol

  • US 6,952,768 B2
  • Filed: 12/07/2000
  • Issued: 10/04/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A secure communication method in which a security protocol is run below an application-level program to establish a secure communication channel for the transfer of application-level data between communicating parties;

  • the security protocol operating by the passing of security-protocol protocol data units, PDUs, between the parties and including an initial secure key exchange handshake in which key material is exchanged in security-protocol PDUs between the parties, this key material being used to provide at least one session key for encrypting application-level data passed between the parties as payload in security-protocol PDUs;

    the security-protocol PDUs taking the form of electronic documents formatted according to a self-describing markup language.

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