Abstract:
A method of generating a shortcut certificate for authenticating a user digital certificate generated by an issuing certification authority; the method comprising: authenticating the digital certificate of the issuing certification authority; creating the shortcut certificate for the digital certificate of the issuing certification authority when the digital certificate of the issuing certification authority is authenticated; wherein the shortcut certificate comprises a signed entry of an authentication of the issuing certification authority.
Abstract:
A method of controlling a data processing device, the method comprising: receiving, at the data processing device, a communication from a remote device wherein the communication comprises verification data; verifying the verification data at the data processing device; initiating an action by a watchdog associated with the data processing device based on the verification.
Abstract:
There is described a method and data processing apparatus for verifying part or all of a downloading file, the file comprising a sequence of bytes, one or more bytes defining a block, the file having a final hash state calculated by a hash algorithm over the blocks in ascending order from first to last, each block having a starting hash state calculated by the hash algorithm, said method comprising: receiving the final hash state; receiving one or more blocks orderable in descending order starting from the last block; receiving, for each received block, the starting hash state for that block; calculating, for each received block, an ending hash state by running the hash algorithm from the starting hash state of the received block; confirming the starting hash state for each received block when the ending hash state is the same as the final hash state or a confirmed starting hash state; and flagging an error when an ending hash state does not match the final hash state or a confirmed starting hash state.
Abstract:
Technology for operating a data-source device for assembling a data stream compliant with a data stream constraint. The technology comprises acquiring a plurality of data items by accessing data in a memory and/or transforming data. Prior to completion of the accessing data in a memory, an accessor is selected based on an estimate of access constraint. Prior to completion of the transforming data, a transformer is selected based on an estimate of transformation constraint, wherein the transportation constraint comprises any data acquisition constraint. The access and transformation constraints are dependent upon system state it the data-source system. The data items are positioned in the data stream, and, responsive to achieving compliance with the data stream constraint, the data strewn is communicated.
Abstract:
Methods of accessing a remote resource from a data processing device A method of accessing a remote resource from a data processing device for providing a rich user interface on a client device, the method comprising: pushing, from the data processing device, a first type of data comprising user interface resources to the remote resource; generating, on the data processing device, a second type of data comprising operational data relating to the operation of the data processing device; pushing from the data processing device, the second type of data, to the remote resource.
Abstract:
A method for controlling communications between a data processing device in a first network and a target service in a second network via a gateway apparatus, the method comprising: transmitting a request to communicate with the target service from the data processing device to the gateway apparatus; transmitting device credentials from the data processing device to the gateway apparatus, wherein the credentials comprise information relating to the target service; verifying at the gateway apparatus an authentication status of the data processing device based on the device credentials; establishing a communication path between the data processing device and the target service if the authentication status is verified.
Abstract:
A method of generating wireless communications from a transmit-only device, the method comprising: generating, at the transmit-only device, a first current session key; generating, at the transmit-only device, operational data; generating, at the transmit-only device, crypto-data by performing a cryptographic operation on the operational data using the first current session key; transmitting, from the transmit-only device, a first identifier to enable a resource derive the first current session key; transmitting, from the transmit-only device, the crypto-data.
Abstract:
There is described a method for mitigating a power-denial of service attack on a first device by a second device, the method comprising: transmitting, from the first device to the second device, a first communication comprising a first task to be solved by the second device; receiving, at the first device from the second device, a second communication comprising one of a proposed solution to the first task and at least one trust credential; verifying, at the first device, the second communication; responsive to an unsuccessful verification of the second communication, transmitting, from the first device to the second device a third communication comprising a second task to be solved by the second device.
Abstract:
A data processing device has a processor which executes software directly from non-volatile memory. The processor has a runtime component which dynamically maps software element identifiers specified by the software to corresponding software elements in memory. Mapping information is used to determine which software elements identifiers correspond to which software elements. This provides a level of indirection which can be used to make software updates more efficient, by updating only parts of the software while leaving old parts of the software as they are. Updated software elements can be stored to memory and the mapping information updated to point to the new elements, while existing mappings may be retained.
Abstract:
A data processing device 2 has a processor 4 which executes software directly from non-volatile memory 6, 8. The processor 4 has a runtime component 20 which dynamically maps software element identifiers specified by the software to corresponding software elements in memory 6, 8. Mapping information 22 is used to determine which software elements identifiers correspond to which software elements. This provides a level of indirection which can be used to make software updates more efficient, by updating only parts of the software while leaving old parts of the software as they are. Updated software elements can be stored to memory and the mapping information updated to point to the new elements, while existing mappings may be retained.