Computing system and related methods providing connection lease exchange and mutual trust protocol

A computing system comprising:

• a gateway appliance;
• and
• at least one virtual delivery appliance configured to cooperate with the gateway appliance to
• establish a transport layer session between the gateway appliance and the at least one virtual delivery appliance,
• establish a presentation layer session vin within the transport layer session,
• establish a connection lease exchange tunnel within the presentation layer session,
• receive a connection lease from a client device via the gateway appliance through the connection lease exchange tunnel and validate the connection lease, and
• issue a resource connection ticket to the client device through the connection lease exchange tunnel responsive to the validation.

A method comprising:

• establishing a transport layer session between a client device and at least one virtual delivery appliance;
• establishing a presentation layer session between the client device and the at least one virtual delivery appliance within the transport layer session;
• establishing a connection lease exchange tunnel between the client device and the at least one virtual delivery appliance within the presentation layer session;
• receiving, at the at least one virtual delivery appliance, a connection lease from the client device through the connection lease exchange tunnel and validating the connection lease;
• and
• issuing a resource connection ticket at the at least one virtual delivery appliance to the client device through the connection lease exchange tunnel responsive to the validation.

A computing system comprising:

• a client device;
• and
• at least one virtual delivery appliance configured to cooperate with the client device to
• establish a transport layer session between the client device and the at least one virtual delivery appliance,
• establish a presentation layer session within the transport layer session,
• establish a connection lease exchange tunnel within the presentation layer session,
• receive a connection lease from the client device through the connection lease exchange tunnel and validate the connection lease, and
• issue a resource connection ticket to the client device through the connection lease exchange tunnel responsive to the validation.