摘要:
A method and apparatus for verifiably providing key recovery information to one or more trustees in a cryptographic communication system having a sender and a receiver Each communicating party has its own Diffie-Hellman key pair comprising a secret value and corresponding public value, as does each trustee The sender non-interactively generates from its own secret value and the public value held by the receiver a first shared Diffie-Hellman key pair comprising a first shared secret value, shared with the receiver but not with any trustee, and a corresponding public value. For each trustee, the sender then non-interactively generates an additional shared secret value, shared with the receiver and the trustee, from the first shared secret value and the public value corresponding to the secret value held by the trustee. The sender uses the additional shared secret value to encrypt recovery information for each trustee, which is transmitted to the receiver along with the encrypted message. Each trustee can decrypt its recovery information by regenerating its additional shared secret value from its own secret value and the public value of the first shared Diffie-Hellman key pair. The receiver can verify the correctness of the recovery information for each trustee by decrypting the information using the additional shared secret value for that trustee, without having to recreate the recovery information or perform computationally expensive public key operations.
摘要:
A method including querying a service provider for functional and nonfunctional qualifications of the service provider to provide a service having functional and nonfunctional requirements; responsive to input from the service provider, receiving by a requestor the functional qualifications and nonfunctional qualifications of the service provider including attesting by a third party, not the service provider or requestor, to at least the nonfunctional qualifications of the service provider; evaluating the functional qualifications and attested to nonfunctional qualifications of the service provider; and selecting a service provider having functional and attested to nonfunctional qualifications complying with the functional and nonfunctional requirements of the requestor. The method may be performed on one or more computing devices. Also disclosed is a computer program product.
摘要:
A method and system are disclosed for analyzing policies for compliance with a specified policy. The method comprises the steps of creating a policy template representing said specified policy, and comparing a group of given policies to said policy template to determine whether said given policies conflict with said specified policy. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the specified policy may include specified rules, the given policies include a plurality of given rules, and the policy template expresses said specified rules. In this preferred embodiment, the comparing step includes the step of comparing said plurality of given rules to the policy template to determine whether any of said given rules conflicts with said specified rules. In addition, preferably, if conflicts are found between said given policies and said specified policy, the given policies are modified to eliminate the conflicts.
摘要:
A method to distribute and authenticate public encryption keys. A client concatenates its ID, its public key, and a secret password known to the client and a server, and hashes the result. The client forms an extended concatenation including the ID, the public key, and the hashed value, and sends the extended concatenation to the server. The server reads the ID and public key, and re-computes the hashed value based on its own knowledge of the password. If the received and the computed hashed values are the same, the server concludes that the client's public key is authentic. An analogous process enables the server to distribute its public key, and enables the client to authenticate the server's distributed public key.
摘要:
A system and method for classifying structured data by automatically suggesting classification labels. The system comprises a taxonomy configured to provide one or more normalized labels and a classification tool configured to automatically classify data across an enterprise system using the one or more normalized labels. The method comprises extracting metadata from one or more relational databases; suggesting classifications based on the metadata; and converting one or more names to normalized labels across an enterprise system based on the suggested classifications.
摘要:
A method and system are disclosed for analyzing policies for compliance with a specified policy. The method comprises the steps of creating a policy template representing said specified policy, and comparing a group of given policies to said policy template to determine whether said given policies conflict with said specified policy. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the specified policy may include specified rules, the given policies include a plurality of given rules, and the policy template expresses said specified rules. In this preferred embodiment, the comparing step includes the step of comparing said plurality of given rules to the policy template to determine whether any of said given rules conflicts with said specified rules. In addition, preferably, if conflicts are found between said given policies and said specified policy, the given policies are modified to eliminate the conflicts.
摘要:
A method for time stamping a digital document employs a two-part time stamp receipt. The first part of the time stamp receipt includes identifying data associated with a document and a nonce. The second part of the time stamp receipt includes a time indication and the nonce. The nonce serves as a link between the first and second parts.
摘要:
A method for time stamping a digital document is disclosed. The document originator creates a time stamp receipt using the document and the current time. The time stamp receipt is submitted to a time stamping authority having a trusted clock. The time stamping authority validates the time stamp receipt by comparing the time value specified in the time stamp receipt to the current time. If the time value specified in the time stamp receipt is within a predetermined time window, the time stamping authority cryptographically binds the time value and document, or the time value and some representation of the document, e.g., by signing the time stamp receipt with its private signature key.
摘要:
A method to exchange and authenticate public cryptographic keys between parties that share a common but secret password, using a pair of random numbers, a pair of Diffie-Hellman public keys computed from the random numbers and the password, a Diffie-Hellman symmetric secret key computed from the Diffie-Hellman public keys and the random numbers, and hashed values of arguments that depend upon these elements.
摘要:
A method for protecting data for access by a plurality of users. A server encrypts data using a master key and a symmetric encryption algorithm. For each authorized user, a key encryption key (KEK) is derived from a passphrase, and the master key is encrypted using the KEK. The server posts the encrypted data and an ancillary file that includes, for each user, a user identifier and the master key encrypted according to the user's KEK. To access the data, a user enters the passphrase into a client, which re-derives the user's KEK, and finds, in the ancillary file, the master key encrypted using the user's KEK. The client decrypts the master key and then decrypts the data. A KEK may be derived from a natural language passphrase by hashing the passphrase, concatenating the result and a predetermined text, hashing the concatenation, and truncating.