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Highly scalable architecture for application network appliances

  • US 8,443,069 B2
  • Filed: 03/24/2011
  • Issued: 05/14/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • at a client host machine, establishing a secure control channel for data traffic between the client host machine and a gateway device;

    negotiating security parameters with the gateway device;

    downloading a policy from the gateway device via the secure control channel;

    analyzing the policy to identify portions of the data traffic that is to be sent over the secure control channel;

    selecting the portions of the data traffic for transmission over the secure channel based on the analyzing;

    encrypting payloads of the selected portions of the data traffic; and

    establishing a proxy connection to provide a security service for the selected portions of the data traffic.

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