公开(公告)号：US20250119422A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-10

申请号：US18481557

申请日：2023-10-05

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Wenying Dong ,  Jianjun Shen ,  Rahul Jain ,  Quan Tian ,  Mengdie Song ,  Xu Liu

IPC: H04L9/40 ,  G06F9/54 ,  H04L41/046

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for authenticating a network agent deployed in a networking environment. The method generally includes receiving, by a network controller in the networking environment, a name of an external node where the network agent is running and a token associated with the external node; in response to receiving the name of the external node, obtaining, by the network controller, a secret associated with the token; parsing, by the network controller, the secret to determine an expected external node name corresponding to the token; comparing the expected external node name with the received external node name; and trusting the network agent when the expected external node name and the received external node name match.