Security over optical transport network beyond 100G

    公开(公告)号:US10985847B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-20

    申请号:US15849959

    申请日:2017-12-21

    摘要: A method divides data traffic into multiple optical transport units formatted according to an optical transport network (OTN) standard. The multiple optical transport units include a master optical network unit and one or more slave optical network units. Each optical network unit includes overhead and a payload. The overhead includes used overhead specifically defined in the OTN standard and unused overhead not specifically defined in the OTN standard. The method encrypts each optical network unit with a respective one of multiple encryption keys, defines security control parameters identifying the multiple encryption keys, and inserts the security control parameters into the unused overhead of a first slave optical network unit among the one or more slave optical network units. The method transmits the optical network units in encrypted form.

    QUANTUM COMPUTER RESISTANT PRE-SHARED KEY DISTRIBUTION FOR LARGE SCALE WIDE AREA NETWORK SOLUTIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20210226782A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-22

    申请号:US16749299

    申请日:2020-01-22

    摘要: Presented herein are methodologies for establishing secure communications in a post-quantum computer context. The methodology includes receiving, from a first communications device, at a second communications device, a secret seed value, or otherwise obtaining the secret seed value; initializing a session key service with the secret seed value; receiving, from the first communications device, at the second communications device, a pre-shared key identifier; querying the session key service for a pre-shared key corresponding the pre-shared key identifier; receiving, from the session key service, the pre-shared key; deriving a session key based, at least in part, on the pre-shared key; receiving from the first communications device, at the second communications device, data encrypted with the session key; and decrypting the data at the second communications device using the session key.

    Authenticated group context in transitive IP network domains

    公开(公告)号:US10104050B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-16

    申请号:US15146695

    申请日:2016-05-04

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06

    摘要: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving at a node of a transitive IP network a data packet including a Network Services Header (“NSH”); accessing by the transitive IP network node context contained in the NSH, wherein the context may be used by the transitive IP network node to perform an enhanced network service in connection with the received data packet; performing by the transitive IP network node the enhanced network service in connection with the received data packet using the accessed context; and, subsequent to the performing, forwarding the received packet to a next node.

    AUTHENTICATED GROUP CONTEXT IN TRANSITIVE IP NETWORK DOMAINS

    公开(公告)号:US20170324714A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-09

    申请号:US15146695

    申请日:2016-05-04

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06

    摘要: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving at a node of a transitive IP network a data packet including a Network Services Header (“NSH”); accessing by the transitive IP network node context contained in the NSH, wherein the context may be used by the transitive IP network node to perform an enhanced network service in connection with the received data packet; performing by the transitive IP network node the enhanced network service in connection with the received data packet using the accessed context; and, subsequent to the performing, forwarding the received packet to a next node.

    SECURITY OVER OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK BEYOND 100G

    公开(公告)号:US20190199449A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-27

    申请号:US15849959

    申请日:2017-12-21

    摘要: A method divides data traffic into multiple optical transport units formatted according to an optical transport network (OTN) standard. The multiple optical transport units include a master optical network unit and one or more slave optical network units. Each optical network unit includes overhead and a payload. The overhead includes used overhead specifically defined in the OTN standard and unused overhead not specifically defined in the OTN standard. The method encrypts each optical network unit with a respective one of multiple encryption keys, defines security control parameters identifying the multiple encryption keys, and inserts the security control parameters into the unused overhead of a first slave optical network unit among the one or more slave optical network units. The method transmits the optical network units in encrypted form.

    WIRE-SPEED ROUTING AND POLICY ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT DPI OR DECRYPTION

    公开(公告)号:US20230097734A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17491163

    申请日:2021-09-30

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06

    摘要: A system and computer-implemented method for routing an encrypted packet through a cloud enforcement network based on a metadata tag. The cloud enforcement network applies policy and routing attributions or tags outside of the encrypted packet payload in such a way as to not require an inner packet to first be decrypted. Traffic prioritization, data protection, and per application policies are achieved by using such metadata tags for internode routing without the need for DPI or decryption. Furthermore, the metadata itself can also be signed or encrypted depending on the provenance of the data. As such, applying meta-tagging external to an encrypted packet, the payload would not be needed to be decrypted during transit of the packet to express end-to-end policy and routing decisions.