Detection of untrusted configurator
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsQin Wei, Guangning Qin, Zhiyuan Yao, Lan Pang
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Abstract
An access point (AP) receives enrollee authentication information simulated by the network device from a network device. Then, the AP simulates an enrollee and broadcasts a configuration request including the enrollee authentication information. When a configurator responds to the configuration request, the AP identifies the configurator as an untrusted configurator, and then the AP transmits device information of the untrusted configurator to the network device. In this way, the untrusted configurator in the serving range can be detected, thereby avoiding the devices being provisioned to connect to untrusted networks.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by an access point (AP) and from a network device, enrollee authentication information simulated by the network device;
- broadcasting, by the AP, a configuration request including the enrollee authentication information;
- receiving, by the AP and from a configurator, a configuration response to the configuration request;
- in response to receiving the configuration response from the configurator, identifying, by the AP, the configurator as an untrusted configurator;
- and
- transmitting, by the AP and to the network device, device information of the untrusted configurator.
A method comprising:
- simulating, by a network device, enrollee authentication information for identifying an untrusted configurator;
- transmitting, by the network device to a first access point (AP), the enrollee authentication information;
- and
- receiving, by the network device from the first AP, device information of the untrusted configurator.
An access point (AP) comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory storing instructions to cause the at least one processor to:
- receive, from a network device, enrollee authentication information simulated by the network device;
- broadcast a configuration request including the enrollee authentication information;
- receive, from a configurator, a configuration response to the configuration request;
- in response to receiving the configuration response from the configurator, identify the configurator as an untrusted configurator;
- and
- transmit, to the network device, device information of the untrusted configurator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.