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Soft token posture assessment

  • US 8,683,563 B1
  • Filed: 03/30/2012
  • Issued: 03/25/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of assessing a security status of a device on which a soft token is run, comprising:

  • collecting device posture information by the device pertaining to at least one of the device'"'"'s software status hardware status or environmental context, the device posture information providing an indication of whether the device has been subjected to malicious activity;

    generating token codes by the soft token on the device for enabling a user of the device to authenticate to a server; and

    initiating transmission of the collected device posture information from the device to the server,wherein collectin device posture information includes running multiple inquiry procedures on the device, receiving respective responses to the inquiry procedures, and storing the responses to the inquiry procedures for transmission to the server, andwherein initiating transmission of the collected device posture information from the device to the server includes;

    assigning different portions of the device posture information to multiple sequences of auxiliary bits;

    blending different sequences of auxiliary bits with respective token codes from the soft token on the device to generate respective passcodes; and

    displaying the passcodes to the user for manual transfer by the user to a computing machine connected to the server over a network.

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