Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100202455 | METHOD FOR SECURE NETWORK BASED ROUTE OPTIMIZATION IN MOBILE NETWORKS - The present invention provides a method of route optimization involving a first mobile device associated with a first home gateway. One embodiment of the method is implemented in a first mobility forwarding entity and includes registering the first mobile device at the first mobility forwarding entity. The first mobile device is registered using a session key included in a registration message transmitted by the first mobile device. The embodiment also includes establishing a secure route between the first mobility forwarding entity and a terminating node using the session key. The secure route bypasses the first home gateway. | 08-12-2010 |
20110051912 | Secure Key Management in Conferencing System - Principles of the invention provide one or more secure key management protocols for use in a communication environment such as a conferencing system. For example, a method for managing a conference between two or more parties in a communication system comprises the following steps. An identity based authenticated key exchange operation is performed between a conference management element of the communication system and each of the two or more parties seeking to participate in the conference, wherein messages exchanged between the conference management element and the two or more parties are encrypted based on respective identities of recipients of the messages, and further wherein the conference management element receives from each party during the key authentication operation a random key component that is computed based on a random number selected by the party. The conference management element sends to each party a set comprising the random key components computed by the parties. The conference management element receives from each party a random group key component, wherein the random group key component is computed by each party via a computation based on the random number used by the party during the key authentication operation and the random key components computed by a subset of others of the two or more parties seeking to participate in the conference. The conference management element sends to each party a set comprising the random group key components computed by the parties such that each party can compute the same group key for use in communicating with each other party through the conference management element. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055567 | Secure Key Management in Multimedia Communication System - Principles of the invention provide one or more secure key management protocols for use in communication environments such as a media plane of a multimedia communication system. For example, a method for performing an authenticated key agreement protocol, in accordance with a multimedia communication system, between a first party and a second party comprises, at the first party, the following steps. Note that encryption/decryption is performed in accordance with an identity based encryption operation. At least one private key for the first party is obtained from a key service. A first message comprising an encrypted first random key component is sent from the first party to the second party, the first random key component having been computed at the first party, and the first message having been encrypted using a public key of the second party. A second message comprising an encrypted random key component pair is received at the first party from the second party, the random key component pair having been formed from the first random key component and a second random key component computed at the second party, and the second message having been encrypted at the second party using a public key of the first party. The second message is decrypted by the first party using the private key obtained by the first party from the key service to obtain the second random key component. A third message comprising the second random key component is sent from the first party to the second party, the third message having been encrypted using the public key of the second party. The first party computes a secure key based on the second random key component, the secure key being used for conducting at least one call session with the second party via a media plane of the multimedia communication system. | 03-03-2011 |
20110170694 | Hierarchical Key Management for Secure Communications in Multimedia Communication System - In a communication system wherein a first computing device is configured to perform a key management function for first user equipment and a second computing device is configured to perform a key management function for second user equipment, wherein the first user equipment seeks to initiate communication with the second user equipment, wherein the first computing device and the second computing device do not have a pre-existing security association there between, and wherein a third computing device is configured to perform a key management function and has a pre-existing security association with the first computing device and a pre-existing security association with the second computing device, the third computing device performing a method comprising steps of: receiving a request from one of the first computing device and the second computing device; and in response to the request, facilitating establishment of a security association between the first computing device and the second computing device such that the first computing device and the second computing device can then facilitate establishment of a security association between the first user equipment and the second user equipment. The first computing device, the second computing device and the third computing device comprise at least a part of a key management hierarchy wherein the first computing device and the second computing device are on a lower level of the hierarchy and the third computing device is on a higher level of the hierarchy. | 07-14-2011 |
20110249609 | Secure Relay Node in Communication System - Techniques are disclosed for use in securing communications in environments such as those employing relay nodes. For example, in a communication network wherein a first computing device comprises a user node, a second computing device comprises a relay node, and a third computing device comprises a network access node, and wherein the relay node comprises: a first module for connecting the user node to the communication network; and a second module for connecting the relay node to the network access node, a method comprises the following steps. At least one packet is received at the first module of the relay node from the user node over an interface established between the user node and the relay node. At least one packet is sent from the first module of the relay node to the second module of the relay node via a secure channel established by the first module in accordance with a secure communication protocol. The at least one packet is sent from the second module of the relay node to the network access node via the secure channel and over an interface established between the relay node and the network access node. | 10-13-2011 |
20120322416 | SECURE KEY MANAGEMENT IN CONFERENCING SYSTEM - A method for managing a conference between two or more parties comprises an identity based authenticated key exchange between a conference management element and each of the two or more parties seeking to participate in the conference. Messages exchanged between the conference management element and the two or more parties are encrypted based on respective identities of recipients of the messages. The method comprises the conference management element receiving from each party a random group key component. The random group key component is computed by each party based on a random number used by the party during the key authentication operation and random key components computed by a subset of others of the two or more parties seeking to participate in the conference. The conference management element sends to each party the random group key components computed by the parties such that each party can compute the same group key. | 12-20-2012 |
20150024714 | PREVENTION OF EAVESDROPPING TYPE OF ATTACK IN HYBRID COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques are disclosed for use in securing communications in environments comprising hybrid communication systems. For example, a method comprises, in a hybrid communication system wherein at least one computing device is configured to selectively operate in a first communication mode or a second communication mode, preventing the at least one computing device from completing an attachment process in the first communication mode when it is determined that authentication data being used to authenticate the at least one computing device in the first communication mode was generated for an authentication process in the second communication mode. | 01-22-2015 |
20160119297 | METHOD FOR SECURE NETWORK BASED ROUTE OPTIMIZATION IN MOBILE NETWORKS - The present invention provides a method of route optimization involving a first mobile device associated with a first home gateway. One embodiment of the method is implemented in a first mobility forwarding entity and includes registering the first mobile device at the first mobility forwarding entity. The first mobile device is registered using a session key included in a registration message transmitted by the first mobile device. The embodiment also includes establishing a secure route between the first mobility forwarding entity and a terminating node using the session key. The secure route bypasses the first home gateway. | 04-28-2016 |